• (ReacTor) Consider Setting Your Space Operas on Saturn

    From James Nicoll@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 25 10:35:18 2025
    Consider Setting Your Space Operas on Saturn

    ...or more precisely, on one of its many, many moons!

    https://reactormag.com/consider-setting-your-space-operas-on-saturn/
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  • From William Hyde@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 25 18:55:18 2025
    James Nicoll wrote:
    Consider Setting Your Space Operas on Saturn

    ...or more precisely, on one of its many, many moons!

    https://reactormag.com/consider-setting-your-space-operas-on-saturn/

    That's an interesting take.

    Saturn-orbit stories could have all the benefits of belt-based SF, with
    the advantage that habitats would be plausibly close together - though sometimes separated by a serious gravitational gradient.

    Solar power would be less efficacious, though.

    William Hyde

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  • From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 25 19:37:57 2025
    On 11/25/2025 9:35 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Consider Setting Your Space Operas on Saturn

    ...or more precisely, on one of its many, many moons!

    https://reactormag.com/consider-setting-your-space-operas-on-saturn/

    One of the first Perry Rhodan books is set on Jupiter like planet with
    extreme pressure and gravity conditions.
    https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/16#

    Several of the Perry Rhodan books are set on Venus with Earth like
    conditions.
    https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/8#

    Lynn


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  • From William Hyde@3:633/10 to All on Wed Nov 26 16:40:11 2025
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <10g5llo$3vi98$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:35 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Consider Setting Your Space Operas on Saturn

    ...or more precisely, on one of its many, many moons!

    https://reactormag.com/consider-setting-your-space-operas-on-saturn/

    One of the first Perry Rhodan books is set on Jupiter like planet with
    extreme pressure and gravity conditions.
    https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/16#

    Several of the Perry Rhodan books are set on Venus with Earth like
    conditions.
    https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/8#


    Hundreds of SF stories are set on a Venus with Earth-like conditions.
    I just finished Brackett's "The Moon That Vanished", very nice. Her planetary romances are brimming with color.

    I'm very fond of her writing. She paints wonderful pictures.

    And it's not like she didn't know the science. She wrote a good and
    realistic Venus story in the mid 50s, with a surface temperature vastly
    above the boiling point of water and a toxic atmosphere. A few years
    later, though, when she had another story to tell, she used Burroughs'
    Venus. And why not?

    William Hyde

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