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injest:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2008/08/15/10-best-science-fiction-planets/

how they could leave off Tattooine I do not know... :-\

Meryl:
Thanks for posting that, Jess.  The article and comments are a quick education in what's out there in popular science fiction.  I have a lot of reading to do!  :P

Looks like they did mention Tatooine, but they went for Dagobah as the one Star Wars choice.  :-\

I have read numbers 3 and 8, the Ursula LeGuin and Kim Stanley Robinson books.  Both highly recommended!  8)

injest:

--- Quote from: Meryl on August 24, 2008, 01:16:16 pm ---Thanks for posting that, Jess.  The article and comments are a quick education in what's out there in popular science fiction.  I have a lot of reading to do!  :P

Looks like they did mention Tatooine, but they went for Dagobah as the one Star Wars choice.  :-\

I have read numbers 3 and 8, the Ursula LeGuin and Kim Stanley Robinson books.  Both highly recommended!  8)

--- End quote ---

Dagobah was ok but to me Tatooine was so much more iconic..

injest:
I havent read any of those. My thing is Sci fi SHORT stories. I love the skill it takes to write a complete, believable story in a few pages that captures my imagination and makes the world seem real to me..

delalluvia:
Tattooine is right up with there with Courscant, IMO.  Dagobah can go suck a Sith.  You seen one swamp, you've seen 'em all.

In some of the comments people left, one or two jogged my memory - yes, how can they leave off the planet Vulcan?  Or Geidi Prime from Dune?  Or Krypton?

Heck, there are even planets no one has seen, but almost everyone has heard of in the Star Wars universe - Corellia (Han Solo was Corellian, remember?) and - well up until Ep III - Alderaan.

They guy who yelled "Barsoom" in the comments made me laugh.  Yes, I remember that place!

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