planetscape n.
the surface geography of a planet
[after landscape]
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1940 The Three Planeteers in Startling Stories Jan. 82/1
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Edmond Hamilton
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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.
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1954 Teucan in Cosmos Science Fiction & Fantasy July 3/1
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Poul Anderson
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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.
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1967 Secret of the Marauder Satellite xi. 117
Ted White
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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.
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1977 The Amazing Interview: Hal Clement in Amazing Stories Mar. 78/1
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Darrell Schweitzer
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Do you ever do it by starting with a scene or visually striking planetscape, then rationalizing it?
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1990 Clarke County, Space 221
Allen Steele
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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.
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2000 Revelation Space x. 173
Alastair Reynolds
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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.
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2008 Saturnโs Children 147
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Charles Stross
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He sits in twilight, ignoring the planetscape outside his porthole.
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2019 Salvation Lost (2020) 40
Peter F. Hamilton
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Conference rooms, in his experience, always had a viewโacross 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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