What's new in the defunct Old Solar System? To keep out of date, enjoy each oldsflash in the items below.
Mar 17, 2025
Kroth - a world you can fall off: Earth with unidirectional gravity
The trilogy depicts an Earth with an absolute up and down
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Mar 17, 2025
Guess The World - how many scenes on each world
how each world is doing on the scenic front
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Mar 17, 2025
What to see on the Moon
The lunar scene
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Mar 16, 2025
Haunted Worlds - Fictional auras of places on Earth, the Moon and Mars
The double life of our place-names
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Mar 16, 2025
History of Hopes
Optimistic science and speculation
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Mar 16, 2025
Guess The World - Sixth Series
Yet more scenes from Solar System worlds
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Mar 15, 2025
Idea for another site - The Stellar Neighbourhood
the named or designated stars that appear in literature
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Mar 13, 2025
Zendexor's OSS Diary 2025
reflections on life, the oss and everything
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Mar 11, 2025
Jasoomian Gathol
dreams and themes from an island
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Mar 11, 2025
Fictional Dates of the Old Solar System
our timeline extended into imagined pasts and futures
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Mar 08, 2025
What to see on Mercury
The Mercurian scene
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Mar 06, 2025
Uranian Throne episode 23 On the Eve
the early part of Sunnoad Yadon's reign
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Mar 06, 2025
What to see on Vulcan
The Vulcanian scene
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Mar 05, 2025
What to see on Titan
The Titanic scene
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Mar 03, 2025
What to see on Pluto
The Plutonian scene
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Mar 01, 2025
the hits race
the monthly popularity-contest for world-teams
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Mar 01, 2025
What to see on Jupiter
The Jovian scene
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Feb 24, 2025
What to see on Pallas
What to see on Pallas
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Feb 10, 2025
What to see on Venus
The Venusian scene
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Feb 08, 2025
What to see on Mars
The Martian Scene
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Feb 07, 2025
What to see on Earth
The Terran Scene
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Jan 31, 2025
What to see on Europa
The Europan scene
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Jan 30, 2025
CLUFFS
CLUFFS - Cute Little Unfulfilled Fragments of Fascination
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Jan 26, 2025
The Slant 2: The Experiment
rocking the cosmic boat
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Jan 24, 2025
What to see on Saturn
The Saturnian Scene
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Jan 23, 2025
The Implicizer Aimed at the Moth-Men of Phobos
expanding a reference in Brackett's The Halfling
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Jan 21, 2025
Valeddom - Mercury Awaits
Resurrects the traditional Twilight Belt version of Mercury
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Jan 12, 2025
What to see on Ganymede
The Ganymedean scene
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Jan 11, 2025
Mimas
Saturn's innermost moon
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Jan 11, 2025
Saturn
Saturn and its moon Titan in pre-space-age science fiction
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Jan 10, 2025
Raymond Z Gallun and the Old Solar System
Raymond Z Gallun and the Old Solar System
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Jan 09, 2025
Leigh Brackett and the Old Solar System
Leigh Brackett's Old Solar System
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Jan 08, 2025
What to see on Deimos
the scene on the second moon of Mars
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Jan 05, 2025
Guess The World - Fifth Series
Yet more scenes from Solar System worlds
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Dec 30, 2024
Primordial Worlds
the OSS in ancient days
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Dec 30, 2024
Names in the Old Solar System
Names in the Old Solar System
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Dec 29, 2024
Space Sargassoes, Derelicts and Clumps
Things that go bump in the void...
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Dec 28, 2024
Characters of Worlds
qualities that build up from tale to tale by overlap of themes
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Dec 26, 2024
the colossus trilogy by d f jones
a computer despotism and an invasion from Mars
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Dec 26, 2024
The Cold White North of Mars
The Red Planet's Boreal Pole
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Dec 24, 2024
Shine of the real - Earthlight by Arthur C Clarke
The poetic realism of Clarke's 22nd-century Moon
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Dec 23, 2024
Clark Ashton Smith and the Old Solar System
Clark Ashton Smith and the Old Solar System
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Dec 22, 2024
Zendexor's OSS Diary 2024
reflections on life, the oss and everything
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Dec 22, 2024
Themes
topics to be found in OSS literature
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Dec 22, 2024
Lunar Surface Creatures
the natives of our moon's outdoors
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Dec 20, 2024
Tales Unwritten
literary voids that need to be filled
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Dec 19, 2024
Clark Ashton Smith: Nihilistic Transcendence by Antolin Gibson
the lush pessimism of zothique, averoigne and other realms galore
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Dec 18, 2024
COMOLD - The Common-Origin Let-Down
The disappointing idea that humans on all OSS worlds share a common galactic origin
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Dec 15, 2024
The Mare Frigoris Culture by Robert Gibson
a lost episode of renaissance history
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