Tuesday, March 08, 2005
In Greek Mythology, the Titans are a race of Godlike giants
Titan in fiction
- In Arthur C. Clarke's novel Imperial Earth, Titan is home to a human colony with a population of 250,000 and provides an important role in the Solar System's economics; Titan's atmosphere supplies the hydrogen needed to support interplanetary travel.
- In Philip K. Dick's post-apocalyptic novel The Game-Players of Titan, a neurotic and suicidal man named Pete Garden must roll a three in Bluff, the game that's become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of Earth, against opponents who are from Titan.
- In Stephen Baxter's novel Titan, a NASA mission to Titan must struggle to survive after a disastrous landing.
- Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan features a journey that climaxes on Titan.
- In the BBC television show Red Dwarf, the character Lister illegally imports a cat from Titan that, through the action of hard radiation over millions of years, becomes the progenitor of a well-dressed, but not particularly intelligent species called Felis sapiens.
- In the television show Starhunter, Titan features prominently as the former home of the character Dante, and is the site of a large colony.
- In the 2000 AD comic series Judge Dredd, Titan is used as a penal colony, but, due to a writer's error, is in orbit around Jupiter. This was later explained as being due to a scientific experiment in teleportation.
- In the Marvel Comics Universe, Titan is home to a colony of Eternals, a godlike race of men and women.
- In the movie Gattaca (1997), Titan is the goal for a space mission at the movie's climax.
- In the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998), Titan was once the site of a war. It is unclear whether there was a colony on the moon.
- An Apple II game called Titan Empire had human inhabitants of this moon attempting to take over the solar system.
- In the novel Shattered Faith by Trevor Mark, Titan is the center of a vast extraterrestrial civilization that is angered by an ancient injustice, and aims for Earth to seek revenge.
- There is a novel by Alan E. Nourse, the American Science Fiction writer, that appeared in English on December 1954 called Trouble on Titan, translated into French as Revolte sur Titan in 1971.
- In the table-top science fiction game Warhammer 40,000 the Grey Knights Space Marine chapter keep their Fortress-Monastery on Titan.
- In the C64 computer game Project Firestart the setting of the story is located on a scientific space vessel which is floating near Titan in the Saturn system.
- Flight on Titan, a short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum
- In James P. Hogan's novel Code of the Lifemaker, Titan is inhabited by a race of Clanking Replicators
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