planetscape n.

the surface geography of a planet

[after landscape]

  • 1940 E. Hamilton The Three Planeteers in Startling Stories Jan. 82/1 page image Edmond Hamilton bibliography

    It was a strangely luminous planet[-]scape they looked down upon, a world shimmering everywhere with the dusky blue radiance they had noticed from afar.

  • 1954 P. Anderson Teucan in Cosmos Science Fiction & Fantasy July 3/1 page image Poul Anderson bibliography

    He was on the fringe of the wild. Beyond were cultivated fields, stone huts scattered like grain seeds over the mighty planetscape, wide highways of beaten earth converging on the distant walls of a city.

  • 1967 T. White Secret of the Marauder Satellite xi. 117 Ted White bibliography

    The alien object hung, unmoving, for a moment, and then turning on a different axis, began to move away. I followed it with my eyes as it crossed over the bright planetscape below.

  • 1977 D. Schweitzer The Amazing Interview: Hal Clement in Amazing Stories Mar. 78/1 page image Darrell Schweitzer bibliography

    Do you ever do it by starting with a scene or visually striking planetscape, then rationalizing it?

  • 1990 A. Steele Clarke County, Space 221 Allen Steele bibliography

    Buck and Bertha dived into their red-and-green striped winged spaceship. It bounced across the planetscape, brown smoke farting from its rear and rivets shaking loose from the seams, before puttering into the sky.

  • 2000 A. Reynolds Revelation Space x. 173 Alastair Reynolds bibliography

    With his impaired vision, he could only guess at the colours of the planetscapes, but he assumed that the spheres represented a steady march towards blue-green verdure.

  • 2008 C. Stross Saturnโ€™s Children 147 page image Charles Stross bibliography

    He sits in twilight, ignoring the planetscape outside his porthole.

  • 2019 P. F. Hamilton Salvation Lost (2020) 40 Peter F. Hamilton bibliography

    Conference rooms, in his experience, always had a viewโ€”across cities or nature (gorgeous panoramas of jungles, mountains, and oceans) or even the astonishing vistas of space, from gas-giant rings to alien planetscapes.


Research requirements

antedating 1940

Earliest cite

Edmond Hamilton, in Startling Stories

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