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Oct 11, 2024
Haunted Worlds - Fictional auras of places on Earth, the Moon and Mars
The double life of our place-names
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Oct 11, 2024
Olaf Stapledon and the Old Solar System
Into his tale of the far future Olad Stapledon weaves the history of four worlds.
Oct 09, 2024
Clark Ashton Smith and the Old Solar System
Clark Ashton Smith and the Old Solar System
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Oct 08, 2024
Fictional Dates of the Old Solar System
our timeline extended into imagined pasts and futures
Oct 08, 2024
Idea for another site - The Stellar Neighbourhood
the named or designated stars that appear in literature
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Oct 07, 2024
Guess The World - how many scenes on each world
how each world is doing on the scenic front
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Oct 02, 2024
Clifford D Simak and the Old Solar System
Clifford D Simak and the Old Solar System
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Oct 01, 2024
Stanley G Weinbaum and the Old Solar System
Stanley G Weinbaum and the Old Solar Systm
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Sep 30, 2024
Robert E Howard by Antolin Gibson
a celebration of some key stories set on colourful Earth
Sep 30, 2024
Poul Anderson and the Old Solar System
Poul Anderson's Old Solar System has exceptional Jupiter coverage
Sep 30, 2024
Raymond Z Gallun and the Old Solar System
Raymond Z Gallun and the Old Solar System
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Sep 29, 2024
A Jovian compromise: Penal World by John Russell Fearn
analysis of an archetypal Jovian tale
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Recent Articles and Updates
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Basilisk
Oct 12, 24 08:25 AM
A tale of the Nitrogen Era -
Haunted Worlds - Fictional auras of places on Earth, the Moon and Mars
Oct 11, 24 02:23 PM
The double life of our place-names -
Zendexor's OSS Diary 2024
Oct 11, 24 01:53 PM
reflections on life, the oss and everything -
Olaf Stapledon and the Old Solar System
Oct 11, 24 07:19 AM
Into his tale of the far future Olad Stapledon weaves the history of four worlds. -
History of Hopes
Oct 09, 24 01:38 PM
Optimistic science and speculation -
Uranian Throne episode 23 On the Eve
Oct 09, 24 11:53 AM
the early part of Sunnoad Yadon's reign -
Names in the Old Solar System
Oct 09, 24 11:23 AM
Names in the Old Solar System -
Clark Ashton Smith and the Old Solar System
Oct 09, 24 06:34 AM
Clark Ashton Smith and the Old Solar System -
Fictional Dates of the Old Solar System
Oct 08, 24 02:25 PM
our timeline extended into imagined pasts and futures -
Idea for another site - The Stellar Neighbourhood
Oct 08, 24 08:06 AM
the named or designated stars that appear in literature -
A E van Vogt and the Old Solar System
Oct 08, 24 07:03 AM
A E van Vogt and the Old Solar System -
A Survey of Ooranye
Oct 08, 24 05:24 AM
the geography, biologies and mentalities of the seventh planet -
Edmond Hamilton and the Old Solar System
Oct 07, 24 06:15 AM
a prolific and exuberant storyteller -
Guess The World - how many scenes on each world
Oct 07, 24 04:05 AM
how each world is doing on the scenic front -
What to see on Jupiter
Oct 07, 24 03:54 AM
The Jovian scene -
CLUFFS
Oct 06, 24 09:24 AM
CLUFFS - Cute Little Unfulfilled Fragments of Fascination -
Guess The World - Fifth Series
Oct 06, 24 09:16 AM
Yet more scenes from Solar System worlds -
The Assault on Arclour
Oct 06, 24 04:23 AM
Triumph at the Starward Pole of Ooranye -
Ray Bradbury and the Old Solar System
Oct 05, 24 01:48 PM
Ray Bradbury and the Old Solar System -
The Actinium Fulfilment
Oct 04, 24 07:09 AM
The last great era before Uranian Year Zero -
Tu Rim
Oct 03, 24 11:56 AM
liberator and oppressor combined -
Clifford D Simak and the Old Solar System
Oct 02, 24 02:37 PM
Clifford D Simak and the Old Solar System -
Invasion
Oct 02, 24 11:49 AM
Syoom's Last Stand -
What to see on Ganymede
Oct 02, 24 04:23 AM
The Ganymedean scene -
Stanley G Weinbaum and the Old Solar System
Oct 01, 24 03:07 PM
Stanley G Weinbaum and the Old Solar Systm -
Impostor
Oct 01, 24 09:33 AM
Fozdak's crime -
the hits race
Oct 01, 24 08:03 AM
the monthly popularity-contest for world-teams -
Robert E Howard by Antolin Gibson
Sep 30, 24 02:26 PM
a celebration of some key stories set on colourful Earth -
Poul Anderson and the Old Solar System
Sep 30, 24 02:10 PM
Poul Anderson's Old Solar System has exceptional Jupiter coverage -
Raymond Z Gallun and the Old Solar System
Sep 30, 24 02:04 PM
Raymond Z Gallun and the Old Solar System -
The Mascon Expeditions
Sep 30, 24 06:33 AM
Vogaging through solid matter -
A Jovian compromise: Penal World by John Russell Fearn
Sep 29, 24 02:37 PM
analysis of an archetypal Jovian tale -
The Era of Psi
Sep 29, 24 11:10 AM
Dangerous powers -
What to see on Io
Sep 29, 24 06:29 AM
The Ionian scene -
H P Lovecraft and the Old Solar System
Sep 28, 24 02:00 PM
H P Lovecraft and the Old Solar System -
Jasoomian Gathol
Sep 28, 24 08:21 AM
dreams and themes from an island -
The Cyborgs
Sep 28, 24 06:35 AM
Ghepion-human hybrids briefly rule Syoom -
The Quest for Solor
Sep 27, 24 07:09 AM
A search for the Uranian Eden -
The Sunnoad's Navy
Sep 26, 24 02:47 PM
Golden age of the Syoomean skyfleet -
The Great Triangle
Sep 25, 24 06:23 AM
A tense, Cold War kind of age -
The Rhenium Moment
Sep 24, 24 09:19 AM
The World Spirit speaks -
The Kalyars
Sep 23, 24 01:44 PM
Nennkind branches into various humanoid races -
What to see on Uranus
Sep 23, 24 03:32 AM
The Uranian scene -
Holding the Line
Sep 22, 24 07:48 AM
rare heroism redeems a decadent era -
What to see on Mars
Sep 22, 24 06:05 AM
The Martian Scene -
The Age of the Wise
Sep 21, 24 05:42 AM
Simulators - beneficent for a while -
The 'Dassan Call
Sep 20, 24 04:53 AM
putting your life on the line -
The Prospectors
Sep 19, 24 12:31 PM
Impetus from the conquest of Mount Gnemek -
The Praesodymium Spotlight
Sep 18, 24 01:06 PM
Foregrounders stand out against backgrounders -
The Foam
Sep 17, 24 12:04 PM
the plains material suffers a popping expansion -
The Last Great Hive
Sep 16, 24 11:10 AM
The Aoan Paramountcy -
The Ghepions
Sep 15, 24 08:34 AM
evolution of sentient machines -
The Institutes of Fate
Sep 14, 24 08:28 AM
The great days of the teleological guilds -
The Age of Spies
Sep 13, 24 07:41 AM
Tenacious defence of a corridor between civilizations -
The Zinc Era
Sep 12, 24 03:02 PM
Construction of the great monolines -
The Quonians
Sep 11, 24 08:24 AM
Infiltrators fake the record of the past -
The Cobalt Era
Sep 10, 24 08:50 AM
The mysterious time of the Sky Patrol -
Revolutions
Sep 09, 24 10:57 AM
Slavery falls and next so does the Iron Era -
What to see on the Moon
Sep 09, 24 05:58 AM
The lunar scene -
The Vanadium Era
Sep 08, 24 06:44 AM
Swashbuckling time on the Seventh World -
Nalre Zitpoidl and the Great Winter
Sep 07, 24 01:16 PM
The White Sun and the days of astonishment -
The Argon Era
Sep 06, 24 06:19 AM
Wayfarers come into their own -
The Great Fleet
Sep 05, 24 11:39 AM
A cataclysmic gamble for world domination -
The Phosphorus Era
Sep 04, 24 05:30 AM
glory and power before the waiting doom -
The First Sunnoad
Sep 03, 24 05:45 AM
Hyala Movoun 1 -
The Plunderers
Sep 02, 24 06:39 AM
Theft of the energy of a universe -
What to see on Titan
Sep 02, 24 03:59 AM
The Titanic scene -
The Lithium Era
Sep 01, 24 08:45 AM
the age of the Sun-Egg and of the first Noads -
Syoom and Fyaym
Aug 31, 24 08:44 AM
A momentous 18 days in Uranian history -
The Hydrogen Era
Aug 30, 24 11:38 AM
The Uranian Adam emerges from the Lake of Dmara -
What to see on Tethys
Aug 29, 24 07:16 AM
The Tethyan scene -
What to see on the Asteroids
Aug 25, 24 04:26 AM
innumerable worlds in the inner planets' back yard -
jettisoned
Aug 24, 24 02:14 PM
a writer goes it alone -
Creatures of the Void
Aug 23, 24 10:36 AM
beings who live naturally in space -
What to see on Earth
Aug 22, 24 06:00 AM
The Terran Scene -
What to see on Enceladus
Aug 21, 24 02:54 AM
The Enceladan scene -
What to see on Saturn
Aug 19, 24 06:28 AM
The Saturnian Scene -
What to see on Venus
Aug 18, 24 06:22 AM
The Venusian scene -
What to see on Mercury
Aug 17, 24 06:24 AM
The Mercurian scene -
What to see on Rhea
Aug 12, 24 03:20 AM
the scene on the fifth Saturnian moon