List of fictional planets by medium

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This is a list of fictional planets organized by the medium in which they primarily appear.

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[edit] Novels and short stories

[edit] Adams, Douglas

Main article: Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[edit] Anthony, Piers

[edit] Asimov, Isaac

Main article: List of Foundation universe planets

[edit] Bear, Greg

[edit] Brin, David

Main article: List of Uplift Universe planets
  • Calafia—Water world in David Brin's Uplift universe, inhabited by humans and neo-dolphins. Currently occupied by the Soro.
  • Deemi—World in David Brin's Uplift Universe leased to humans on the condition that they run the Galactic prison. Bathed in UV radiation. Most of biosphere is aquatic.
  • Garth—David Brin's Uplift War (weird biology)
  • Jijo — In the Uplift series of David Brin, a planet in Galaxy #4 where Humans and other sophont refugees have illegally hidden, in the case of the G'kek and the Humans to avoid extermination, potential for humanity, certain for G'kek.
  • Jophekka—In David Brin's Uplift Universe, the homeworld of the Jophur, sapient and ambitious sap ring stacks.
  • Kithrup—David Brin's Startide Rising (waterworld rich in heavy metals, which form part of the biochemical structure of its life. Mildly toxic to non-native life. also the "retirement" home of a neurotic race with enormous psi power)
  • Omnivarium—World in David Brin's Uplift Universe. Inhabited by birds that mimic any sound, a fact discovered when the birds started mimicking the sounds of explorers performing coitus.
  • Tanith—In David Brin's Uplift trilogies Tanith is the location of the nearest full Galactic Library branch near Terra.

[edit] Bujold, Lois McMaster

Main article: List of Vorkosigan Saga planets

[edit] Clement, Hal

Main article: Hal Clement#Planets

[edit] De Camp, L. Sprague

Main article: Viagens Interplanetarias

[edit] Farmer, Philip Jose

[edit] Feist, Raymond E.

[edit] Forward, Robert L.

[edit] Hamilton, Peter F.

Main article: Planets and habitats of the Night's Dawn trilogy#Planets
  • Atlantis—Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy (waterworld)
  • Far Away—Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star (triangle of stratospheric mountains, sterilized by solar flare, Starflyer alien)
  • Garissa—Planet in Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy that is anti-matter bombed and rendered uninhabitable.
  • Jobis—A Kiint world with three artificial moons from Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy.
  • Norfolk—British-ethnic world in Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy. Known for Norfolk Tears, a highly-prized spirit distilled from the secretions of a flower native to the world and dependent on the star systems binary nature.
  • Nova Kong—Capital world of the Kingdom of Kulu in Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy. Ruled by the Saldana family.
  • Nyvan—First planet colonized by humanity in Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy. Considered backwards and stunted due to its not being unified into one nation.

[edit] Herbert, Frank

Main article: List of Dune planets

[edit] Heinlein, Robert A.

Main article: Starship Troopers#Locations

[edit] Le Guin, Ursula K.

Main article: Ekumen

[edit] Lem, Stanisław

[edit] L'Engle, Madeleine

Main article: Places in the works of Madeleine L'Engle#Other_planets
  • Camazotz – A planet of extreme, enforced conformity, ruled by a disembodied brain called IT.
  • Ixchel – A planet of muted colors, inhabited by motherly, sightless creatures.
  • Uriel – A planet with extremely tall mountains, named after the Archangel Uriel.

[edit] McCaffrey, Anne

[edit] Niven, Larry

Main article: Known Space#Locations
  • Home—Larry Niven's Known Space universe (wiped out by disease in Protector)
  • Jinx—Larry Niven's Known Space universe (high gravity and extreme vertical scale)
  • Plateau/Mt. Lookitthat—Larry Niven's Known Space universe (Venus-like with only a small high plateau habitable; colonized by mistake)
  • The Smoke Ring—Larry Niven's Integral Trees & Smoke Ring (gas ring around a neutron star)
  • We Made It—Planet in Larry Niven's Known Space universe marked by intense winds. Inhabitants called Crashlanders, such as Beowulf Schaeffer from Neutron Star.

[edit] Niven and Pournelle

  • Mote Prime—The Mote in Murcheson's Eye, homeworld of the Motie race, mutant non-symmetric semi-vertebrates who have been locked in ten thousand year cycles of chaos due to being trapped in one star system and their reproductive drives. Appear in the Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
  • New Chicago—World in revolt from the 2nd Empire of Man at the beginning of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye

[edit] Pournelle, Jerry

Main article: CoDominium#Planets of the CoDominium and the Empire of Man
  • Covenant—Scottish-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History. Known for its mercenaries specializing in infantry.
  • Churchill—English-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.
  • Dayan or Dyan—Israeli-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.
  • Friedland—German-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History. Known for its mercenaries specializing in armored warfare.
  • Frystaat—Afrikaner-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.
  • Meiji—Japanese-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.
  • Nuliajuk—Inuit/Eskimo-ethnic world of Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.
  • Sauron—Homeworld of the Sauron Supermen in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History. Known for high metal content and its denizens belief that war was the ultimate expression of humankind. Started the Secession Wars that ended the First Empire of Man.
  • Sparta—Capital world of the First and Second Empires of Man in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History, originally called Botany Bay. Generally North American in population.
  • St. Ekaterina—Russian-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History. First planet attacked by the Sauron Supermen in the Secession Wars.
  • Tanith—A jungle planet known for the drug borloi in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.

[edit] Reynolds, Alastair

Main article: List of Revelation Space locations

[edit] Silverberg, Robert

[edit] Simmons, Dan

Main article: Hyperion Cantos#Planets of the Hyperion Cantos

[edit] Smith, E. E.

Main article: Lensman#Planets and Places
  • Arisia—E. E. Smith's Lensmen series. Source of the Lens.
  • Boskone—Smith's Lensmen series
  • Palain IX—E. E. Smith's Lensmen series. Frigid home of Nadreck, hydrogen breather and Second-Stage Lensman.
  • Rigel—E. E. Smith's Lensmen series. Noisy home of Tregonsee, Second-Stage Lensman, whose people's only sense is their "sense of perception".
  • Trenco – E. E. Smith's Lensman Series. A major fraction of the planet's atmosphere condenses each night and evaporates each day giving rise to exceptionally violent weather. The planet's plant life yields the illicit narcotic thionite.
  • Velantia —E. E. Smith's Lensmen series. Home of Worsel, master hypnotist and Second-Stage Lensman.

[edit] Strugatsky, Boris and Arkady

Main article: Noon Universe#Planets

[edit] Vance, Jack

  • The Dying Earth, fictionalized Earth of the 20 millionth century.
  • Dar Sai, home of the supercriminal Lens Larque from the novel The Face (Vance).
  • Interchange (Vance), planet providing facilities for the exchange of kidnap victims, from the novel The Killing Machine
  • Big Planet, site of the novel of the same name, as well as Showboat World
  • Wyst, Marune and Trullion three very different planets each given its own novel in the Alastor series by Jack Vance.
  • Durdane, a world divided into scores of culturally distinct regions; locale of three novels by Jack Vance, The Anome, The Brave Free Men and The Asutra
  • Tschai, home to enslaved humans, three warring alien races and one native sentient species, each given its own novel: City of the Chasch,Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir, and The Pnume.
  • Cadwal, home of the Nature Conservancy, locked in struggle with the indigenous Yips
  • Maske, site of the novel Maske:Thaery
  • Nopalgarth, mother planet of supposedly malignant mental parasites infecting humans, and others, from the novel of the same name.
  • Smade's Planet—Visited by Kirth Gersen in the Demon Princes novels by Jack Vance; known for Smade's Tavern.

[edit] Weber, David

Main article: List of planets in the Honorverse

[edit] Westerfeld, Scott

[edit] Other Authors

[edit] Comics

[edit] Calvin and Hobbes

Main article: Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes#Spaceman Spiff's planets
  • Ahnooie-4 where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) decides to put a repulsive blob out of its misery
  • Bog—where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) avoids pools of toxic chemicals under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases
  • Gloob—above which Spaceman Spiff, Calvin from the comic (Calvin and Hobbes), has a malfunction in his hyper freem drive and is blasted with a deadly frap ray by the aliens
  • Mok, where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) undergoes water torture (his mother washes his hair)
  • Plootarg—where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) crashes after being zorched by a Zarch spacecraft
  • Q-13—where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) faces despicable scum beings with his mertilizer beam and mordo blasters
  • X-13—where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) is captured and brought before the Zorg despot
  • Zark, where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) has several adventures escaping sinister aliens
  • Zartron-9—home of the awful bug beings who blast Spaceman Spiff while he reboots his saucer's computer and tries to recalibrate his weapons
  • Zog—where Spaceman Spiff makes a (very rare) perfect 3 point landing
  • Zok—where Spaceman Spiff is marooned
  • Zokk—where Spaceman Spiff bounds across the landscape given the low gravity
  • Zorg—where Spaceman Spiff sets his gun on deep-fat fry to blast aliens

[edit] DC Comics

Main article: List of locations of the DC Universe#Planetary systems
  • Bismol—Home world of Tensil Kem, a.k.a. Matter-Eater Lad of the Legion of Super-Heroes (Pre-Crisis) DC Universe. Everyone on Bismol has the power to digest anything.
  • Braal—Home world of Rokk Krin a.k.a. Cosmic Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes. (Pre and Post Crisis) DC Universe. Everyone on the planet has magnetic powers.
  • Oa—headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps
  • Mogo, from the Green Lantern Corps comic books, is not only alive, but also an appointed member of the corps.
  • Daxam—Native of Daxam are not unlike those of Krypton, they too circle a red gas giant, one notable inhabitant is Lar Gand a.k.a. Mon-El(Pre-Crisis) and Valor(Post-Crisis)who is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the far distant future. Lar has the same powers as Superman under the yellow sun, and the element lead is deadly to him, as Kryptonite is deadly to Superman. DC Universe.
  • Dryad—Is a planet inhabited by a race of sentient silicone creatures that resemble the shape of humans. Dryad is the home world of Blok a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the far distant future. DC Universe.
  • Krypton—Superman
  • Tamaran-Home of Starfire (Koriand'r) and Blackfire (Komand'r).
  • Wegthor is a moon that once encircled the planet Krypton, Superman's home world.

[edit] Marvel Comics

  • Astra—A Marvel Universe planet where humanoid aliens possess magnetic and molecule-controlling powers that enable them to have every power on metal
  • Ego the Living Planet—Marvel comics (living planet)
  • Kosmos—A planet in the Marvel Universe from which a criminal sludge-like alien escapes to hide on Earth where he kills The Wasp's father and fights Ant-Man
  • Krelar- Second homeworld of the (Blue Skinned) Kree Race. Marvel Comics Creation. Home world of "Captain Mar-Vel," "Colonel Yonn-Rog," "Captain Atlas," and "Una."
  • Homeworld of The Micronauts, actually a chain of worldlets connected which resembles the ball and stick

molecular model.

[edit] Valérian and Laureline

[edit] Other comics

[edit] Film and television

[edit] Alien (film)

[edit] Babylon 5

[edit] Battlestar Galactica

[edit] Blake's 7

  • Gauda Prime — Appears in the last episode of Blake's 7, being where one of the characters originates, and where the series' eponymous character is residing. A planet overrun with bounty hunters and the scum of the galaxy - but some of whose inhabitants wish to return it to normality (and the Federation).
  • Star One - a star with a single planet holding the Federation's main computers in Blake's 7, situated between our galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. Planet destroyed in an intergalactic war.
  • Terminal—planet in the series Blake's 7. In the toponymous episode it is a bizarrely flattened planet that had been constructed several centuries before in the Solar System and moved, supposedly destroyed: in the next episode it reverted to a more conventional shape.

[edit] The Chronicles of Riddick

[edit] Dragon Ball

[edit] Doctor Who

Main article: List of Doctor Who planets

[edit] Firefly/Serenity

Main article: List of Firefly planets and moons
  • Londinium — Co-capital world (Anglo-American) of the Alliance.
  • Miranda — Serenity (site where the Alliance accidentally spawned the Reavers).
  • Shadow — Homeworld of Malcolm Reynolds.
  • Sihnon — Co-capital (Chinese) of the Alliance.

[edit] Red Dwarf

  • Htrae—Red Dwarf (a backwards version of Earth).
  • Rimmerworld — Arnold Rimmer of Red Dwarf spends 600 years alone on this planet, creating clones of himself in a failed attempt to create a girlfriend. The planet is eventually populated by millions of clones who imprison the original Rimmer.

[edit] Robotech

[edit] Space Battleship Yamato

  • Aquarius—Giant waterworld that caused the Biblical Great Flood. From Final Yamato of the Space Battleship Yamato series.
  • Gamilon/Gamilus—Polluted homeworld of Leader Desslock the Gamilon/Gamilus Empire—Space Battleship Yamato

[edit] Star Trek

Main article: List of Star Trek Planets

[edit] Star Wars

Main article: List of Star Wars planets

See also Category:Star Wars planets

[edit] Transformers series

[edit] Vandread

  • Mejerr — Vandread (female-only society)
  • Talark — Vandread (male-only society)

[edit] War of the Worlds (TV series)

  • Qar'To—a planet established in the first season of War of the Worlds to be in the same system as that of the invading aliens (Mor-Tax) and has sent a synth to assassinate the Advocacy
  • Mor-Tax—the aliens' homeworld in the first season of War of the Worlds (described as a garden planet)
  • Morthrai—destroyed world of the aliens in the second season of War of the Worlds

[edit] Other Film and TV

[edit] Role-playing games

[edit] Rifts

  • Eylor, a living world said to be the source of the magical Eyes of Eylor, living disembodied eyes of great power.
  • Wormwood

[edit] Warhammer 40,000

Main article: Planets of Warhammer 40,000

[edit] Computer and video games

[edit] Total Annihilation

[edit] Freelancer

  • Crete
  • Houston
  • Leeds — a heavily polluted planet
  • Manhattan, London, Tokyo and Berlin— Most places in this game are named after Earth places, such as the planet Stuttgart, the New York system, or the Detroit asteroid field.
  • Pittsburgh— Desert, populated with mining operations

[edit] Halo

  • Harvest— a farm planet
  • Reach— a military stronghold planet in the Epsilon Eridani system
  • Sigma Octanus IV—a colony planet, significant because the Halo's "coordinates" were discovered there

[edit] Homeworld

  • Kharak— A desert planet destroyed by an enemy race after space travel is developed
  • Hiigara— The lost Kushan home planet

[edit] Little Big Adventure

  • Twinsun — A planet lit by two suns (which are fixed). It has three climates: the poles are hot and desert, the equator is cold and Arctic (in opposite to planet Earth), and between them lie temperate lands.
  • Zeelich – A planet in Little Big Adventure 2. It is covered by a thick layer of gas clouds and beneath lies a sea of lava. Vegetation and civilization occur only on mountains above the cloud layer.

[edit] Metroid series

  • Aether — A planet temporarily split into two parallel dimensions in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.
  • Tallon IV - A planet formerly inhabited by Chozo in Metroid Prime video game. All life on the planet was horribly mutated following the crash of a toxic asteroid. Later games mention the mutagen destroyed and the planet slowly recovering.
  • SR-388 - A planet that serves as the original home of the titular Metroid species.
  • Zebes - A major planet of Space Pirate operations in Metroid and Super Metroid. The game's heroine, Samus Aran, was raised by the Chozo on this planet before the Space Pirates arrived.

[edit] Star Fox

Main article: List of Star Fox planets and locations
  • Aquas - Small waterworld in the Lylat System, setting of the video games in Nintendo's StarFox series
  • Corneria - The home planet for the Fox Team in the series. It is also the most technologically advanced.
  • Fortuna - Small planet covered in forests and evergreens.
  • Fichina - A barren planet locked in an eternal blizzard. (Named Fortuna in Star Fox 64)
  • Sauria - The "Dinosaur Planet", and main setting of Star Fox Adventures. As its name suggest, the planet is populated by dinosaurs of all types.
  • MacBeth - A planet that has been turned into a giant supply depot by Andross' forces.
  • Titania - A desert-like planet littered with stone ruins. Slippy Toad crashes on this planet in Star Fox 64 when he tries to engage the secret weapon in Sector X.
  • Venom - Largest and closest orbiting planet of the Lylat System, setting of the games in Nintendo's Star Fox series, bearing an extremely toxic atmosphere and therefore a highly desolate surface. Home of the evil Andross. In some versions of the backstory, Venom was previously called Edena because it was supposedly covered almost entirely with forest, possibly evergreen, before Andross was exiled there, suggesting it may have also been a prison planet.
  • Zoness - A planet that once was nearly all tropical in its climate, and home to many island resorts in StarFox's Lylat System, the whole planet was turned into a toxic waste dump by the forces of Andross according to the storyline of StarFox 64, turning its once beautiful oceans into seas of corrosive poison and its atmosphere into a caustic cloud of deadly vapors.

[edit] Star Ocean

  • Aldeian - Star Ocean 3 : Till The End of Time
  • Ellicoore 2-Star Ocean 3 : Till The End of Time
  • Expel—where much of the action of Star Ocean: The Second Story occurs
  • Hyaita 4-Star Ocean 3 : Till The End of Time
  • Roak—where the action of Star Ocean occurs
  • Styx- Star Ocean 3 : Till The End of Time
  • Vanguard 3- Star Ocean 3 : Till The End of Time
  • Vindine - Star Ocean 3 : Till The End of Time

[edit] Other games

  • Aiur—jungle planet in StarCraft the computer game
  • Azeroth (formerly Kalimdor)—In the Warcraft series, it is the home of humans and the main setting of the games
  • Baloris Prime—A planet from the PC game Descent II which was mostly desert (according to the writers of the game this was because its axis of rotation was exactly perpendicular to its plane of orbit, causing a total lack of seasons on the surface of the planet.
  • New Terra—In the computer game Outpost 2, New Terra is the world chosen by humanity as its last hope for survival, colonized by the last survivors of Earth in starship Conestoga.
  • Palshife—capital of the Rebellion in the computer game Escape Velocity
  • Popstar—from the Kirby series of video games
  • Second Miltia—home planet of Shion Uzuki, protagonist in the Xenosaga games.
  • Xenon—Roger Wilco's home world in the Space Quest computer game series.

[edit] Experimental Planets

[edit] See also