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Recent Articles and Updates
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Interplanetary Knock-Out
Jun 24, 17 06:32 AM
Interplanetary knock-out competition
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OSS Diary June 2017
Jun 23, 17 05:44 PM
Old Solar System Diary June 2017
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Venus Quiz - Author to Tale
Jun 15, 17 07:10 AM
Venus Quiz - Author to Tale
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Venus Quiz - Tale-to-Author
Jun 12, 17 05:29 AM
Venus Quiz - Tale-to-Author
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Still in orbit!
Jun 09, 17 08:02 AM
Still in orbit!
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The Zones Cup
Jun 02, 17 01:54 PM
The Zones Cup
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Page View Winners 2017
Jun 01, 17 05:48 PM
Page View Winners 2017
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OSS Diary May 2017
May 31, 17 05:33 PM
Old Solar System Diary May 2017
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CLUFFS
May 29, 17 07:20 AM
CLUFFS - Cute Little Unfulfilled Fragments of Fascination
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Fictional Dates of the Old Solar System
May 29, 17 07:02 AM
Fictional Dates of the Old Solar System
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Relations between the Galilean Moons
May 21, 17 04:15 PM
New section added to the Galilean Satellites page.
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Mountains on the far-future Sun
May 20, 17 03:13 PM
See the new section, near the end of the page, quoting from "Finality Unlimited" by Donald Wandrei.
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Mars Quiz - Author-To-Tale
May 16, 17 05:09 AM
Mars Quiz - Author-To-Tale
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Mars Quiz - Tale-To-Author
May 11, 17 11:22 AM
Mars Quiz - Tale-To-Author
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The Captain Returns!
May 09, 17 07:36 AM
Hello, Readers! It's me, the roving Panthan, popping in during a break from a long investigation of the outer planets. I promise to resume regular posting
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Enceladus and Europa - The Last OSS Worlds?
May 08, 17 05:36 PM
The news today was full of exciting news from Enceladus. The ingredients for life were detected - there may be life under the ice! The same has long been
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OSS Diary April 2017
Apr 30, 17 01:26 PM
Old Solar System Diary April 2017
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"Gather, Darkness!" -- a Fritz Leiber OSS tale
Apr 12, 17 05:05 AM
Several things, this website very much among them, have sent me back to the SF novels I used to devour in my misspent youth. One consequence was a pleasant
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Indiana Jones on Mars: In the Tombs of the Martian Kings by Mike Resnick
Apr 03, 17 06:58 AM
Indiana Jones on Mars: In the Tombs of the Martian Kings by Mike Resnick
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The First Men in the Moon by H G Wells
Mar 31, 17 01:17 PM
The First Men in the Moon by H G Wells
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OSS Diary March 2017
Mar 30, 17 06:02 PM
Old Solar System Diary March 2017
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Reconsidering a Unique Martian Tale: Shoals by Mary Rosenblum
Mar 21, 17 07:20 AM
Reconsidering a Unique Martian Tale: Shoals by Mary Rosenblum
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A Coercive of Mars
Mar 17, 17 05:59 AM
A Coercive of Mars - S M Stirling's Swords of Zar-Tu-Kan
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Sailing the Seven Spaceways
Mar 16, 17 07:08 AM
Sailing the Seven Spaceways
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Moon Quiz - Author To Tale
Mar 15, 17 07:36 AM
Moon Quiz - Author To Tale
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Hyper-Brains in the Old Solar System
Mar 15, 17 06:54 AM
Swollen, hypertrophied or disembodied brains in the Old Solar System
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A view of Titania
Mar 13, 17 12:42 PM
More impressions of Uranus' largest moon.
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But Is It NOSS?
Mar 13, 17 06:16 AM
As noted in a comment to Dylan's piece Still Here!, I've got a hypothetical quasi-NOSS setting in mind for a story set on an inhabited Mars -- to be precise,
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More fictional dates
Mar 11, 17 02:00 PM
Events of 1899, 2082, 2095, 2140, 2143, 2203, 2507, 2821, 3039 and 3040.
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Still Here!
Mar 10, 17 04:48 AM
Hey OSS, Expect the next Travelogue Entry shortly! Also, I've been working on a little something, and hope to have the first draft completed soon! As
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A Fifth Parameter?
Mar 07, 17 03:04 PM
Zendexor, I like your four parameters -- though I'd be willing to give some wiggle room on Pluto-as-planet, since asteroids and other smaller-than-a-planet
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Lovecraft's Moon
Mar 05, 17 05:34 AM
Kaor, Zendexor! Apologies for the long silence; Jasoomian responsibilities kept me off the spacelanes for way too long. (On the upside, I scored five battered
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Page View Winners
Mar 01, 17 10:14 AM
page view winners - statistics of page views
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OSS Diary February 2017
Feb 28, 17 04:33 PM
OSS Diary February 2017
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A Return to Bradbury's Mars - The Ugly Duckling by Matthew Hughes
Feb 19, 17 09:28 AM
A Return to Bradbury's Mars - The Ugly Duckling by Matthew Hughes
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Time to Rest by John Wyndham
Feb 11, 17 09:13 AM
Time to Rest by John Wyndham
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Allen M Steele's Enigmatic Mars
Feb 05, 17 11:49 AM
Allen M Steele's Enigmatic Mars
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OSS Diary January 2017
Jan 31, 17 07:40 AM
OSS Diary January 2017
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Moon Quiz - Tale To Author
Jan 29, 17 03:27 PM
Moon Quiz - Tale To Author
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Slaves of Venus
Jan 29, 17 12:35 PM
Slaves of Venus
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Old Solar System Quizzes
Jan 19, 17 06:52 AM
Old Solar System Quizzes
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A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny
Jan 15, 17 01:59 PM
A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny
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The Intrepid Travelogue
Jan 14, 17 06:47 AM
The Intrepid Travelogue
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Battle on Mercury by Lester del Rey
Jan 11, 17 12:46 PM
Battle on Mercury by Lester del Rey
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Unreasonable Fun
Dec 31, 16 03:10 PM
Zendexor, just wanted to say that I've enjoyed your unreasonable comparisons, and I find no fault in comparing pulp adventures to classic literature. I've
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OSS Diary December 2016
Dec 31, 16 07:28 AM
OSS Diary December 2016
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Old Mercury
Dec 27, 16 03:44 PM
Old Mercury
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Mercury Awaits
Dec 27, 16 05:50 AM
Zendexor, your Mercurian Anthology list got my blood pumping! I wracked my brain for more Mercury tales, and when that failed, I turned to the internet
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Merry Christmas from Planet Earth!
Dec 25, 16 10:51 AM
If Asimov's Christmas on Ganymede is to be believed, the Ganymedeans enjoy Christmas every two weeks and I am therefore rather late with this, but I wish
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Pinnah-Birds and Genetic Engineering
Dec 24, 16 05:23 AM
So I was reading The Seedling Stars by James Blish, and on page 35 I came across a passage which might answer your question as to the nature of the plant
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State of preservation
Dec 21, 16 12:25 PM
More material on how much one might hope to find on the fragments of the Lost Planet
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Hamilton and Gibson
Dec 21, 16 05:20 AM
Firstly, let me say that I'm thrilled to see the final chapter of The Arc of Iapetus! It's been a special treat, reading that tale. A trip into the past.
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Hamilton's Standard Model Mars: World of Never-Men
Dec 16, 16 01:57 PM
Hamilton's Standard Model Mars: World of Never-Men
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Conclusion of Arc of Iapetus
Dec 15, 16 03:13 PM
Glad to receive the finish before Christmas! Part Seven now online.
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My OSS Sequel Wish List
Dec 14, 16 12:00 PM
I, for one, can think of more than a few books that deserved sequels, and I present them in list fashion and in no particular order! 1. Red Planet 2.
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Vast Distances of the Old Solar System
Dec 12, 16 05:00 AM
I was reading your Dec. 5 diary, Zendexor, and I confess that I wish the long voyage to nearby planets had been a more persistant trope! Space is hard!