Solar System in fiction

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The Solar System and its various bodies (planets, asteroids, moons, etc.) were the earliest objects to be treated as fictional locations in works of science fiction. Among these, imaginary voyages to and explorations of Earth's Moon are found in seventeenth century literature. By the early twentieth century, following the increase in scientific and technological development spurred by the Industrial Revolution, fictional journeys to (or from) the Solar System's other planets had become common in fiction.

With the onset of the Space Age, planetary probes cast increasing doubt on the likelihood of extraterrestrial life in the Solar System, at least life of any magnitude greater than organisms such as bacteria. More recent fiction focused on the Solar System has thus tended to address its exploration for purposes such as terraforming.

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[edit] Examples

Examples of fictional works set wholly or primarily on planets and other locations within the Solar System include:

[edit] Novels and series

Name	Author
Captain Future	Edmond Hamilton
Eight Worlds	John Varley
Grand Tour	Ben Bova
Leigh Brackett Solar System	Leigh Brackett
Lucky Starr series	Isaac Asimov
Northwest Smith	C. L. Moore
Space Odyssey	Arthur C. Clarke
Space Trilogy	C. S. Lewis
The Rolling Stones	Robert A. Heinlein

[edit] Comics and animation

The Cowboy Bebop comics, animated television series and film by Hajime Yatate
The Exosquad animated television series (see Exosquad planets)

[edit] Film, radio and television

Space Patrol, the puppet television program.
The Tom Corbett, Space Cadet radio and television programs.

[edit] Games

Name	Developer
Space: 1889	Game Designers' Workshop
GURPS Terradyne campaign	Steve Jackson Games
Jovian Chronicles	Dream Pod 9
Transhuman Space	Steve Jackson Games
Mutant Chronicles	Target Games