OSS Updates

What's new in the defunct Old Solar System? To keep out of date, enjoy each oldsflash in the items below.

Jul 31, 2025

Fictional Dates of the Old Solar System

1975

our timeline extended into imagined pasts and futures

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Jul 30, 2025

Man of the World

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A tale of Universe Six

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Jul 30, 2025

Guess The World - how many scenes on each world

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how each world is doing on the scenic front

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Jul 30, 2025

Guess The World - Sixth Series

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Yet more scenes from Solar System worlds

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Jul 30, 2025

What to see on the Moon

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The lunar scene

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Jul 29, 2025

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

Mary and the planets

The double life of our place-names

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Jul 29, 2025

Eras, Periods and Epochs

early Triassic Earth

The ages of deep time

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Jul 28, 2025

History of Hopes

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Optimistic science and speculation

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Jul 28, 2025

What to see on Mars

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The Martian Scene

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Jul 26, 2025

Idea for another site - The Stellar Neighbourhood

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the named or designated stars that appear in literature

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Jul 23, 2025

What to see on Ceres

The Cerian scene

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Jul 22, 2025

Names in the Old Solar System

Names in the Old Solar System

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Jul 22, 2025

What to see on Venus

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The Venusian scene

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Jul 21, 2025

CLUFFS

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CLUFFS - Cute Little Unfulfilled Fragments of Fascination

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Jul 21, 2025

Future Dates for Real

prophecies which are quite certain

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Jul 20, 2025

What to see on Pluto

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The Plutonian scene

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Jul 16, 2025

Zendexor's OSS Diary 2025

Zendexor absorbed in The Sands of Mars

reflections on life, the oss and everything

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Jul 16, 2025

What to see on Uranus

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The Uranian scene

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Jul 15, 2025

What to see on the Asteroid Progenitor Planet

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The Lost Planet scene

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Jul 14, 2025

What to see on Neptune

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The Neptunian scene

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Jul 10, 2025

What to see on Mercury

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The Mercurian scene

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Jul 06, 2025

What to see on Ganymede

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The Ganymedean scene

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Jul 01, 2025

the hits race

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the monthly popularity-contest for world-teams

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Jun 28, 2025

What to see on Callisto

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The Callistan scene

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Jun 22, 2025

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

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The trilogy depicts an Earth with an absolute up and down

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Jun 19, 2025

What to see on Jupiter

paul life on jupiter

The Jovian scene

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Jun 18, 2025

What to see on Earth

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The Terran Scene

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Jun 13, 2025

What to see on Io

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The Ionian scene

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Jun 12, 2025

What to see on the Asteroids

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innumerable worlds in the inner planets' back yard

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Jun 09, 2025

Themes

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topics to be found in OSS literature

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Jun 04, 2025

What to see on Europa

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The Europan scene

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May 26, 2025

The Rise 7: The Grand Fleet

Soaring up to the northern hemisphere

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May 26, 2025

Hyperion

Hyperion

the Saturnian odd-moon-out

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May 06, 2025

Uranian Throne episode 23 On the Eve

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the early part of Sunnoad Yadon's reign

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Apr 26, 2025

Things that go bump in the Norm

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The beyond impinges on the everyday

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