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  1. Man of the World

    Aug 15, 25 11:30 AM

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    A tale of Universe Six

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  2. Fictional Dates of the Old Solar System

    Aug 15, 25 02:35 AM

    1975
    our timeline extended into imagined pasts and futures

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

    Aug 15, 25 02:00 AM

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    how each world is doing on the scenic front

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  4. What to see on the Sun

    Aug 15, 25 01:57 AM

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    The solar scene

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  5. Eras, Periods and Epochs

    Aug 14, 25 03:40 PM

    early Triassic Earth
    The ages of deep time

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  6. Guess The World - Sixth Series

    Aug 14, 25 04:03 AM

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    Yet more scenes from Solar System worlds

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  7. Zendexor's OSS Diary 2025

    Aug 13, 25 01:23 PM

    Zendexor absorbed in The Sands of Mars
    reflections on life, the oss and everything

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  8. Stephen King's 'crossings' and 'boundaries'

    Aug 12, 25 02:25 PM

    the stand
    where he succeeds and where he fails

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  9. What to see on Ceres

    Aug 11, 25 03:59 AM

    The Cerian scene

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

    Aug 09, 25 08:35 AM

    Mary and the planets
    The double life of our place-names

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  11. What to see on the Asteroid Progenitor Planet

    Aug 09, 25 04:12 AM

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    The Lost Planet scene

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  12. What to see on Mars

    Aug 05, 25 06:38 AM

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    The Martian Scene

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  13. CLUFFS

    Aug 04, 25 08:42 AM

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    CLUFFS - Cute Little Unfulfilled Fragments of Fascination

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  14. Idea for another site - The Stellar Neighbourhood

    Aug 04, 25 06:05 AM

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    the named or designated stars that appear in literature

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  15. What to see on Venus

    Aug 04, 25 03:47 AM

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    The Venusian scene

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  16. What to see on Mercury

    Aug 03, 25 04:24 AM

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    The Mercurian scene

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  17. What to see on the Moon

    Aug 01, 25 11:40 AM

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    The lunar scene

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  18. the hits race

    Aug 01, 25 10:49 AM

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    the monthly popularity-contest for world-teams

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  19. History of Hopes

    Jul 28, 25 01:07 PM

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    Optimistic science and speculation

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  20. Names in the Old Solar System

    Jul 22, 25 06:53 AM

    Names in the Old Solar System

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  21. Future Dates for Real

    Jul 21, 25 02:09 PM

    prophecies which are quite certain

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  22. What to see on Pluto

    Jul 20, 25 08:09 AM

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    The Plutonian scene

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  23. What to see on Uranus

    Jul 16, 25 05:35 AM

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    The Uranian scene

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  24. What to see on Neptune

    Jul 14, 25 03:40 AM

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    The Neptunian scene

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  25. What to see on Ganymede

    Jul 06, 25 06:25 AM

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    The Ganymedean scene

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  26. What to see on Callisto

    Jun 28, 25 04:50 AM

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    The Callistan scene

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

    Jun 22, 25 01:04 PM

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    The trilogy depicts an Earth with an absolute up and down

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  28. What to see on Jupiter

    Jun 19, 25 05:38 AM

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    The Jovian scene

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  29. What to see on Earth

    Jun 18, 25 04:19 AM

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    The Terran Scene

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  30. What to see on Io

    Jun 13, 25 05:06 AM

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    The Ionian scene

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  31. What to see on the Asteroids

    Jun 12, 25 05:38 AM

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    innumerable worlds in the inner planets' back yard

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  32. Themes

    Jun 09, 25 01:38 PM

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    topics to be found in OSS literature

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  33. What to see on Europa

    Jun 04, 25 03:37 AM

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    The Europan scene

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  34. The Rise 7: The Grand Fleet

    May 26, 25 11:32 AM

    Soaring up to the northern hemisphere

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  35. Hyperion

    May 26, 25 11:12 AM

    Hyperion
    the Saturnian odd-moon-out

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  36. Uranian Throne episode 23 On the Eve

    May 06, 25 01:45 PM

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    the early part of Sunnoad Yadon's reign

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