Gas Giant
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Although Jupiter and Saturn appear commonly in works of Science Fiction, extrasolar Gas Giants are relatively rare among referenced named extrasolar planets. The probable reason is that their high gravities, high atmospheric pressures, and unbreathable atmospheres make them poor locations for human dramas.
Gas giants sometimes appear in but go unnamed in science fiction works because they are places conducive to human life and drama. Theplanet in the 1995 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode [ml "Heart of Stone" is an example. The gas giant moon in the same episode also fails to earn a name.
Interesting exceptions are the more than two million inhabited gas giants in the universe described Iain Banks's novel The Algebraist. Some 90% of these are inhabited by Dwellers. However water poor Jupiter is not among the 90%.
[edit] List of Extrasolar Gas Giants
- Antar - Star Wars universe
- Bear (47 Ursae Majoris 3) - Allen Steele's Coyote Rising
- Bespin - Star Wars Universe
- Callinon VII - "The Search, Part 1," Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episode 1, Season 3, 9-26-1994
- Bandicot - Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen's Heaven, brief reference, p. 20
- Cassp - Timothy Zahn's Night Train to Rigel
- Chronos - Poul Anderson's Mirkheim
- Daedalus - Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper's Building Harlequin's Moon
- Djiminid - Iain Banks's The Algebraist, p. 382
- Furenasyle - Iain M. Banks's The Algebraist, p. 136
- Gatewood - Wil McCarthy's Lost in Translation
- Ghost - Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen's Heaven, brief reference, p. 20
- G'iri (orbits beyond Nasquelon in the Ulubris system) - Iain M. Banks's The Algebraist, p. 300
- Harlequin - Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper's Building Harlequin's Moon
- Icelanise - Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star, p. 290
- Maruspial - Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen's Heaven, brief reference, p. 20
- Meta - Scott Mackay's Phytosphere, p. 173
- Nasqueron (Ulubris system) - Iain Banks's The Algebraist
- Nhouaste - Iain M. Banks's The Algebraist, p. 311
- Orb Ibanna - Star Wars universe
- Osa - Scott Mackay's Phytosphere, p. 173
- Polyphemus - Ken Macleod's Newton's Wake: A Space Opera, p. 29
- Quarta - Poul Anderson's "Iron," a novella in Larry Niven's Man-Kzin Wars, Pp. 74-77
- Qua'runze (Ulubris system) - Iain Banks's The Algebraist, p. 104
- Quinta - Poul Anderson's "Iron," a novella in Larry Niven's Man-Kzin Wars, Pp. 76-77
- Sanjin - Star Wars universe
- Sesefras Magna - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Setor - Star Wars universe
- Udaspri (ringed planet and probable gas giant) - John Scalzi's Old Man's War, p. 186
- Van de Kamp - Wil McCarthy's Lost in Translation
- Wolf (47 Ursae Majoris 4) - Allen Steele's Coyote Rising
- Yavin - Star Wars universe
- Zemlya - Charles Stross's Iron Sunrise, p. 22
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