Comments on: 10 Best Science Fiction Planets

By: morfeo

morfeo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:39:26 +0000

Pandora will soon join this list

By: Anthrope

Anthrope — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:11:38 +0000

What? You mean to tell me that other planets like Gallifrey or Krypton are nowhere to be found? Specifically these two planets deserve to be here, the two countries which basically primarily do science fiction are Great Britain and the U.S., and you mean to tell me that their respective cultural icons’ planets of origin are of less consequence than LV-426 or P2? So apparently Superman and Doctor Who are irrelevant to sci-fi.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:28:41 +0000

Or the Silfen worlds of Hamilton’s Commonwealth saga? Or Elan in same series? He’s the master of new worlds.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:22:21 +0000

What about the many planets, real and artificial habits, of Peter F Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn Trilogy?

By: Yugan

Yugan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:39:49 +0000

about twenty years ago I read a series about a guy who crashed on a world called Tsai. It was so exciting I forgot the titles of the books or the author. Can anyone help me out?

By: David

David — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:49:37 +0000

I would’ve included either Durdane or Halma (both Jack Vance, the first from the Durdane trilogy and the second from the vastly underrated “Emphyrio.”)

By: Len Robertson

Len Robertson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:52:45 +0000

As we await confirmation that life has been detected on Gliese 581 d (the water world) twenty light years way, one constant for 353 planets orbiting other stars seems to be there is no constant. No one would have imagined even ten years ago that we would detect life on planets orbiting other stars before we found it on Mars, yet that easily could be the case. That the planet is nearly eight times as large as Earth but has the same surface gravity (because it doesn’t have a rocky core) makes the discovery even odder.

As Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz have shown, truth is stranger than fiction.

By: DoubleDutch

DoubleDutch — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:56:20 +0000

What about Kesrith and Kutath,not to mention Pell’s World.

By: Tomzp

Tomzp — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:55:38 +0000

Altair IV great !!!

By: Basisrente

Basisrente — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:45:34 +0000

See them all. All great moviez, i really like them.

By: streamtender

streamtender — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:24:26 +0000

treason…

By: Bob Thayne

Bob Thayne — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:36:56 +0000

Cool list, Stephen! But ouch, the abuse you have to take after putting your list out there! Some of your choices are awesome, and some are new to me. I need to go read some more.

This sparked a lot of great suggestions too, although too many people missed the point. Thanks for the effort, Rod Blaine.

I thought MiddleO’Nowhere’s contribution of Krikkit was hilarious, although there has always been a special place in my heart for Squornshellous Zeta.

I don’t know that I would have chosen Dagaobah myself. Maybe it’s because I was always disappointed that I didn’t get to see beyond Yoda’s swamp.

Coruscant over Dagobah? Come on, people. Remove the buildings and the current inhabitants and what do we know about this great planet called Coruscant? That it’s a spheroid?

c.compton, I like your suggestions of Malacandra and Perelandra, although to me it is Lewis’s writing that is so great, and not the planets themselves.

By: c. compton

c. compton — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:39:54 +0000

what about CS Lewis’s space trilogy. There was such discription about the two places that he visited I fell in love with them. and their people and language and ways. it was precious.

By: stephen smith

stephen smith — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:56:47 +0000

whilst i dont have a particular favourite tits thanks to this site that i have remembered a set of books i read a few years ago …pelle thank you for the deathworld hint ….and the planet i think is cool is pyrrus

By: Kirk

Kirk — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:36:27 +0000

What about “10 Best Science Fiction Alien Species?”