Clonus Posted August 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Exploding volcanos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Exploding volcanos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirgos Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Harrison's World: where the people have evolved into formidable warriors just to survive their planet's deadly native wildlife, which evolves to exterminate the colonists, and so on.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenOfItAll Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats BTW, VanceWorld orbits a red giant star. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted January 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Russ: The planet is split between an oppressive oligarchic patriarchy, and a nation of women who, having dispensed with men, naturally live in a utopia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Planet McCaffrey Dragons. What else do you need to know? The men of McCaffrey are openly bisexual, but very derisive of those who take the passive role. Planet Bradley All ranged weapons outlawed. At first glance thech seems medival, but is backed up by an extremly high tech infrastructure powered by psionics. Despite telepaths being common among the population, all interpersonal relationships resemble junior high school due to an absolute taboo that forbids any two people to honetly and openly discussing how they feel about each other. Probably humans whould have become extinct on that planet were it not for the halucinogenic/aphrodisiactic pollen of a flower that blooms on the mountains in the local springtime. Most children are conceived during these "ghost winds." Planet Bujold Another mixture of medival and modern. Many of the men of the planet have nothing better to do than plot machivellian intrigues to achieve more power at court, but the real power behind the throne is an offworlder woman who is reputed to lop the head off any idiot who annoys her. "You are trying to annoy me. I fear you shall succeed. You should fear it also." Fameous for having once appointed a horse to the local legislative body (Lord Midnight, who always voted neigh). Planet Roddenberry When men are brave and women beautiful, even more so than Planet Heinlein. Technology has solved all problems, though medical technology has some strange gaps. (Heart failure? Have a mechanical one. Cancer? We have a shot for that. Kidney failure? Take a pill and grow a new one. Bald? You're screwed, dude!) When religion rears its head on Roddenberry, it is always, always a hoax to dupe the ignorant masses. Wait, how did a technological utopia get ignorant masses to begin with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted January 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Planet Bradley All ranged weapons outlawed. At first glance thech seems medival, but is backed up by an extremly high tech infrastructure powered by psionics. Despite telepaths being common among the population, all interpersonal relationships resemble junior high school due to an absolute taboo that forbids any two people to honetly and openly discussing how they feel about each other. Probably humans whould have become extinct on that planet were it not for the halucinogenic/aphrodisiactic pollen of a flower that blooms on the mountains in the local springtime. Most children are conceived during these "ghost winds." Well...it doesn't work very well when you have only one society to work from. Same problem with John Norman. Your description is a little too specifically Darkover, and doesn't cover other things MZB wrote. How about this: Bradley: Bradley is a world that eschews the use of distance weapons, at the command of a ruling class who possess nearly magical mental powers and want to preserve their edge. Women and men have a rather remote relationship even when married, and many women live segregated from men entirely save for periodic orgies. The original inhabitants of Bradley are thought to be extinct, and are rarely encountered. As for Roddenberry, it's not that they couldn't fix baldness, it's that they'd think it wrong to fix a purely cosmetic condition. That would be like valuing...things . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Clarkeworld: Extremely diverse. As a result of numerous carefully-planned experiments by vastly technologically-superior intelligences of inscrutable motives. Verne's Horizon: Humans divided into a number of nations, from the dictatorial to the anarchistic, each dominated by an eccentric, charismatic scientific genius and his bizarre machines. Wells' End: An ancient, dying planet, whose diverse inhabitants have evolved radical physical forms and social structures to adapt to their world's varying hostile environments. Technology in use ranges from primitive to extremely advanced, but with understanding of the principles behind much of it lost to time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted January 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Thinking about Clarke: Clarke's Planet is a world dotted by artifacts so advanced that they will baffle any human scientist. Their makers are known only through their devices and servants. They have never been seen or otherwise detected by any human being who has returned to tell about the encounter. However humans on Clarke's planet do have a tendency to mysteriously disappear so perhaps some of them meet the hosts and do not return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Goodwin Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Chalkerworld: Ranges from ultra low tech to ultra high tech. There are even a few places where magic works. Everyone who lands there gets transformed. Everyone. Despite transformation being common, no one ever gets transformed back; those who have transformed radically have their minds altered so that they prefer the new form. Any additional transformation is always even more radically different from the original form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinanju Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Chalkerworld: Ranges from ultra low tech to ultra high tech. There are even a few places where magic works. Everyone who lands there gets transformed. Everyone. Well, unless you're Nathan Brazil, anyhow. (I just reread the Wellworld series.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirgos Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats May's End: where thinly disguised Celtic gods run around using their powers to screw each other (literally & metaphorically) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Eddings' World: Where time is not a line, but a Moebius strip, and everything happens the same way repeatedly, with minor to major variations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted March 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Andre: The planet has a slum surrounding the spaceport, circled by villas owned by organised crime figures, with the rest of the planet being a near-wilderness occupied by hardy frontiersmen who communicate telepathically with their animal companions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Adams' Planet: Nothing is impossible, as long as A) you can justify it mathematically and it makes for a good gag. Make sure you visit the Restaurant while you're there, but be careful what you order to drink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Planet Roddenberry When religion rears its head on Roddenberry' date=' it is always, [i']always[/i] a hoax to dupe the ignorant masses. Quoted for truth. Religion in Star Trek is for savages (e.g., Klingons) and second-rate species (e.g., Bajorans). Truly enlightened beings haven't believed in anything non-scientific for centuries. Repped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted March 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Leinster: A world which is in theory habitable, possessing clean and breathable air, arable soil, the right mixture of water and land. Most of the time it's nice. However the sun is erratic, the planet is much more geologically active than earth, the local wildlife is psychotic, the weather is occasionally insane, and sometimes bits of the planet spontaneous shift into parallel universes. Humanity has spread out so the various disasters of this planet won't catch more than one small community at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Cross Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats here are some examples of Japanese authors: Planet Kikuchi:The world was until recently ruled by a bunch of superscientific vampires,some of which still survive.The result is an unholy cross between TSR's Gamma World,Hammer movies,and Italian spaghetti westerns,with a touch of The Outer Limits. Planet Takahashi:Currently late twentieth century level,with limited contact with more advanced species.(Though such species are often quite primitive emotionally,which generally results in madcap things happening).People here tend to the obssessional,especially over matters of romance.Magic is common here,but its use tends to have unforseen consequences,especially as it is often used to make people fall in love with someone who doesn't love them back. This world is,however,mainly known for its martial artists,who,while not at Dragonball level,can still use ki attacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Normanworld: a very male dominated planet where women are mostly slaves' date=' and treated poorly at best, mostly very low tech[Earth Medieval'] I suspect Weberworld might feel it is necessary to do an "intervention." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted March 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Poe: Poe is a cool world with a lot of cloud cover over the inhabited part of it. As a result the inhabitants all have what other habitable worlds would consider indoor pallor. The social order is highly stratified, and the aristocracy are notorious for their acute aesthetic sensibilities, and fragile sanity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted March 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Roddenberry: Roddenberry has a socialistic economy but technologically advanced automated manufacturing technologies help keep it comfortable. Even so, everyone is expected to work, even if the work they are doing is useless. Those content to remain unemployed will be ostracised, and offered psychiatric assistance. The inhabitants usually regard their own culture as perfect and consider it only a matter of time until everyone is like them but at the same time guard the technology that makes it possible carefully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix3 Posted March 27, 2009 Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Stirling: A world in which a tiny minority of genetically-engineered supermen (and women) lord it over genetically-engineered serfs. The supermen started out as normal humans in a single tiny nation on an otherwise undistinguished world ' date='but in less than a century bootstrapped their way to global military dominance. They conquered every other nation on the planet, butchered millions and enslaved the rest. Now, a few generations later, they've engineered themselves to be superhumanly strong, fast, tough and unaging. They've engineered their slaves to be docile and awestruck by them. They've also genetically engineered centaurs and other fantastic lifeforms to live in their vast wilderness preserves to serve as intelligent prey for hunts.[/quote'] This is SM Stirling? I'm going to have to hunt down one of his books now. Any recommendations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinanju Posted March 28, 2009 Report Share Posted March 28, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats This is SM Stirling? I'm going to have to hunt down one of his books now. Any recommendations? The series I'm specifically referencing is his Draka series: Marching Through Georgia*, Under the Yoke, The Stone Dogs, and Drakon. The first two novels are set in and after WWII (or an alt-history version of same). The Stone Dogs is set in the late 90s or so, and Drakon is a contemporary (for when it was written) novel about a single gene-engineered super-Draka who falls through a wormhole into our world, more or less. I also really like Conquistador, which is a stand-alone novel. The first novels in two other series** are also well worth reading. There's Island in the Sea of Time in which the island of Nantucket and environs (including many, many square miles of sea water, including watercraft) are mysteriously transported back to the bronze age and the islanders have to learn how to survive there. Dies the Fire tells the story of what happened to the rest of the world when Nantucket disappeared--and the laws of physics changed so that high tech no longer functioned.... I also really recommend his Terminator trilogy. It's a FAR better follow-up to Terminator and T2 than anything the studios have produced to date. *Russian Georgia, not Dixie... **Many people like all the books in the series, but I mostly just like the first ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThothAmon Posted March 28, 2009 Report Share Posted March 28, 2009 Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Gibson I - Isolated but moderately technologically advanced world, socially and morally fractured. Corporate entities effectively rule the planet from high orbit. Seething masses huddle in poverty watching endless reality TV. AI and genetic engineering normal for the wealthy, sought after by the poor masses. No trans-system spaceflight. Societal malaise has led to excessive navel-gazing in virtual reality. Varley I to VIII - A completely colonised system notable for advanced bioloical and technological achievements including cloning, full-body transplantation, memory / personality transfer, AI and harnessing of black holes as power sources. The system supports a huge number of social, philosophical, religious and sexual variations with governing AIs set up to reinforce individual freedoms, population control and identity control. The exception is Varley III which is a closed world, having been forcibly colonised by an unknown alien species that is inimical to all tool-using life forms. Morgan I - Human colonies amidst alien relics that have so far failed to yield their secrets. Advanced computer / gene tech but limited spaceflight capabilities. Distinguishing features of this system include inter-world transfer of personality via electromagnetic transmission and the reduction of the physical body to the status of clothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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