Saturn in fiction

Saturn has made appearances in fiction since the 1750 novel Micromégas by Voltaire.[1] Once it was established that it was a gaseous planet, most works depicting such an environment were instead set on Jupiter.[2] Its moons, especially Titan, have generally received more attention in science fiction than the planet itself.[3][4]

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References
  1. McKinney, Richard L. (2005). "Jupiter and the Outer Planets". In Westfahl, Gary (ed.). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 449. ISBN 978-0-313-32951-7. The earliest fiction featuring Saturn is probably Voltaire's Micromégas (1750). Much later, Saturn is central in Poul Anderson's "The Saturn Game" (1981) and Michael A. McCollum's The Clouds of Saturn (1991), where human cities float in Saturn's atmosphere. The planet's atmosphere is also the home of the two-brained, four-kilometer-wide creatures of Robert F. Forward's Saturn Rukh (1997). Saturn's largest satellite, Titan—interesting because of its thick atmosphere—is colonized in Alan E Nourse's 1954 juvenile novel, Trouble on Titan, while Stephen Baxter's Titan (1997) is about a space misson to the satellite.
  2. Westfahl, Gary (2021-07-19). "Saturn". Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 554. ISBN 978-1-4408-6617-3.
  3. Clute, John; Langford, David; Sleight, Graham (eds.). "Outer Planets". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4th ed.). Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  4. Stableford, Brian M. (2006). "Saturn". Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. pp. 458–459. ISBN 978-0-415-97460-8.
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