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1. Kroth - a world you can fall off: Earth with unidirectional gravity

   Mar 17, 25 02:40 PM

   
   The trilogy depicts an Earth with an absolute up and down

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2. Guess The World - how many scenes on each world

   Mar 17, 25 01:58 PM

   
   how each world is doing on the scenic front

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3. What to see on the Moon

   Mar 17, 25 01:56 PM

   
   The lunar scene

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4. Haunted Worlds - Fictional auras of places on Earth, the Moon and Mars

   Mar 16, 25 05:23 PM

   
   The double life of our place-names

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5. History of Hopes

   Mar 16, 25 04:53 PM

   
   Optimistic science and speculation

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6. Guess The World - Sixth Series

   Mar 16, 25 08:04 AM

   
   Yet more scenes from Solar System worlds

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7. Idea for another site - The Stellar Neighbourhood

   Mar 15, 25 07:06 AM

   
   the named or designated stars that appear in literature

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8. Zendexor's OSS Diary 2025

   Mar 13, 25 04:26 PM

   
   reflections on life, the oss and everything

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9. Jasoomian Gathol

   Mar 11, 25 03:22 PM

   
   dreams and themes from an island

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10. Fictional Dates of the Old Solar System

    Mar 11, 25 09:10 AM

    
    our timeline extended into imagined pasts and futures

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11. What to see on Mercury

    Mar 08, 25 06:36 AM

    
    The Mercurian scene

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12. Uranian Throne episode 23 On the Eve

    Mar 06, 25 03:23 PM

    
    the early part of Sunnoad Yadon's reign

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13. What to see on Vulcan

    Mar 06, 25 03:07 AM

    
    The Vulcanian scene

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14. What to see on Titan

    Mar 05, 25 07:11 AM

    
    The Titanic scene

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15. What to see on Pluto

    Mar 03, 25 05:00 AM

    
    The Plutonian scene

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16. the hits race

    Mar 01, 25 12:13 PM

    
    the monthly popularity-contest for world-teams

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17. What to see on Jupiter

    Mar 01, 25 08:08 AM

    
    The Jovian scene

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18. What to see on Pallas

    Feb 24, 25 03:08 AM

    
    What to see on Pallas

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19. What to see on Venus

    Feb 10, 25 09:13 AM

    
    The Venusian scene

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20. What to see on Mars

    Feb 08, 25 08:13 AM

    
    The Martian Scene

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21. What to see on Earth

    Feb 07, 25 04:54 AM

    
    The Terran Scene

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22. What to see on Europa

    Jan 31, 25 05:23 AM

    
    The Europan scene

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23. CLUFFS

    Jan 30, 25 08:01 AM

    
    CLUFFS - Cute Little Unfulfilled Fragments of Fascination

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24. The Slant 2: The Experiment

    Jan 26, 25 01:51 PM

    
    rocking the cosmic boat

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25. What to see on Saturn

    Jan 24, 25 04:09 AM

    
    The Saturnian Scene

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26. The Implicizer Aimed at the Moth-Men of Phobos

    Jan 23, 25 02:19 PM

    
    expanding a reference in Brackett's The Halfling

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27. Valeddom - Mercury Awaits

    Jan 21, 25 11:56 AM

    
    Resurrects the traditional Twilight Belt version of Mercury

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28. What to see on Ganymede

    Jan 12, 25 06:44 AM

    
    The Ganymedean scene

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29. Mimas

    Jan 11, 25 12:35 PM

    
    Saturn's innermost moon

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30. Saturn

    Jan 11, 25 12:14 PM

    
    Saturn and its moon Titan in pre-space-age science fiction

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31. Raymond Z Gallun and the Old Solar System

    Jan 10, 25 01:06 PM

    Raymond Z Gallun and the Old Solar System

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32. Leigh Brackett and the Old Solar System

    Jan 09, 25 01:27 PM

    Leigh Brackett's Old Solar System

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33. What to see on Deimos

    Jan 08, 25 06:11 AM

    the scene on the second moon of Mars

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34. Guess The World - Fifth Series

    Jan 05, 25 04:21 AM

    
    Yet more scenes from Solar System worlds

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35. Primordial Worlds

    Dec 30, 24 11:26 AM

    
    the OSS in ancient days

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36. Names in the Old Solar System

    Dec 30, 24 11:04 AM

    Names in the Old Solar System

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37. Space Sargassoes, Derelicts and Clumps

    Dec 29, 24 02:42 PM

    
    Things that go bump in the void...

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38. Characters of Worlds

    Dec 28, 24 01:52 PM

    
    qualities that build up from tale to tale by overlap of themes

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39. the colossus trilogy by d f jones

    Dec 26, 24 01:55 PM

    
    a computer despotism and an invasion from Mars

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40. The Cold White North of Mars

    Dec 26, 24 01:39 PM

    
    The Red Planet's Boreal Pole

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41. Shine of the real - Earthlight by Arthur C Clarke

    Dec 24, 24 01:33 PM

    
    The poetic realism of Clarke's 22nd-century Moon

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42. Clark Ashton Smith and the Old Solar System

    Dec 23, 24 01:24 PM

    Clark Ashton Smith and the Old Solar System

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43. Zendexor's OSS Diary 2024

    Dec 22, 24 03:07 PM

    
    reflections on life, the oss and everything

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44. Themes

    Dec 22, 24 12:35 PM

    
    topics to be found in OSS literature

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45. Lunar Surface Creatures

    Dec 22, 24 12:31 PM

    
    the natives of our moon's outdoors

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46. Tales Unwritten

    Dec 20, 24 01:08 PM

    literary voids that need to be filled

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47. Clark Ashton Smith: Nihilistic Transcendence by Antolin Gibson

    Dec 19, 24 01:17 PM

    
    the lush pessimism of zothique, averoigne and other realms galore

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48. COMOLD - The Common-Origin Let-Down

    Dec 18, 24 08:33 AM

    The disappointing idea that humans on all OSS worlds share a common galactic origin

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49. The Mare Frigoris Culture by Robert Gibson

    Dec 15, 24 07:14 AM

    
    a lost episode of renaissance history

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50. Author Heaven - Plus

    Dec 14, 24 12:06 PM

    Author Heaven - Plus

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51. Moral dimensions of the Old Solar System

    Dec 13, 24 01:24 PM

    
    slavery, arena bloodshed and specism in the OSS

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52. Hollow Worlds

    Dec 10, 24 11:18 AM

    
    habitable interiors of planets and moons

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53. What to see on Themis

    Dec 09, 24 06:18 AM

    
    Pickering's discounted discovery brought to fictional life

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54. Hyper-Brains in the Old Solar System

    Dec 07, 24 10:44 AM

    
    Swollen, hypertrophied or disembodied brains in the Old Solar System

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55. Poetic Licence

    Dec 06, 24 01:19 PM

    
    leeway for writers in the OSS

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56. The Great Red Spot

    Dec 05, 24 08:19 AM

    
    How Jupiter's most famous feature figures in sf

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57. Intelligent Plants in the Old Solar System

    Dec 04, 24 02:27 PM

    
    vegetable brains and awareness

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58. What to see on Planet X

    Dec 04, 24 08:50 AM

    
    scenes from the tenth planet

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59. An acquired taste

    Dec 03, 24 03:28 PM

    Hi there As a long time science fiction reader I enjoy the spirited debate even if it takes me a while to catch up with the topic sometimes. Can you provide

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60. H P Lovecraft - misunderstood?

    Dec 02, 24 01:04 PM

    
    an awe-inspirer rather than a horrifier

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61. What to see on Iris

    Dec 02, 24 09:21 AM

    The Iridian scene

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62. Alien Scripts in the Old Solar System

    Nov 30, 24 12:06 PM

    
    mysterious planetary writings

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63. GAWI

    Nov 29, 24 07:36 AM

    Getting Away With It

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64. Plying the Space-lanes of the Old Solar System

    Nov 28, 24 11:53 AM

    
    on the celestial tracks

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65. Decisive Battles of the Old Solar System

    Nov 27, 24 02:30 PM

    
    The clashes that shaped the worlds we knew

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66. Greenery

    Nov 25, 24 12:24 PM

    
    a mobile home fights a deadly plant

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67. Uranian Clock

    Nov 24, 24 07:31 AM

    
    the divisions of the thirty-hour day on Ooranye

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