Talk:Mesklin
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The article states:
In "Whirligig World", Clement stated that he gave "official permission to anyone who so desires to lay scenes there ..."
Did anyone ever take him up on it? Google reveals no further stories by anyone else. --Phil 09:37, Jan 29, 2004 (UTC)
"They were also the first attempt to set stories on a known planet outside the solar system." Are we sure about that? It seems unlikely. For example the Lensman series and The Skylark of Space predate it. DJ Clayworth 17:40, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
- Lensman certainly predates it, and the author ("Doc" Smith) does occasionally use the names of real stars, but none of the books in that series (I've read them) have a planet based on a planet that had actually been detected by science (mistakenly or not). Which only makes sense; at the time of the Lensmen series, the available tools and processes weren't able to even TRY to detect planets. -- Dwheeler 03:13, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A planet in 61 Cygni
A reprint of "Whirlygig World" from 2000 has a note at the end that a large planet has been confirmed in the 61 Cygni system, but unfortunatley for the Mesklinites, orbiting 61 Cygni B.
