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Pluto has been featured in many instances of science fiction and popular culture. Initially classified as a planet upon its discovery in 1930, Pluto has also received considerable publicity following a 2006 definition of planet decree (which dubbed it a dwarf planet) and from the flyby of the ''New Horizons'' space probe in July 2015. == Literature == * ''The Whisperer in Darkness'' (1931), story by H. P. Lovecraft, and other Cthulhu Mythos stories. Pluto is called ''Yuggoth''. He formed the concept of Yuggoth before Pluto had been discovered. However, as Lovecraft was still in the process of writing "The Whisperer in Darkness" Pluto was found. In the stories, a fictional alien race called the Mi-go have a base there. There are some stories, though, that identify Yuggoth with a huge world situated beyond Pluto on an orbit perpendicular to the ecliptic. * ''In Plutonian Depths'' (''Wonder Stories Quarterly'', Spring 1931), short story by Stanton A. Coblentz. The first story to take advantage of the newly discovered and named world. * ''The Red Peri'' (1935), novella by Stanley G. Weinbaum. The title character is a space pirate with a secret base on Pluto. * ''Cosmic Engineers'' (1939, 1950), novel by Clifford D. Simak, features a human base on Pluto. * ''First Lensman'' (1950), novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith, features an alien race colonizing Pluto without ever realizing that life existed on Earth. * "Sky Lift" (1953), story by Robert A. Heinlein. A torch-ship pilot flies on a mercy mission to Pluto at 9 g's. * In ''Andromeda'' (1957), by Ivan Efremov, Pluto is described as being an extrasolar planet, composed mainly of ice. The novel also briefly mentioned that a terrestrial expedition had found remnants of ancient alien structures. * ''Have Space Suit—Will Travel'' (1958), juvenile novel by Robert A. Heinlein. Pluto is used by aliens as a remote base for Earth exploration. In Heinlein's ''Starship Troopers'' (1959), the Terran Federation maintains a research station on or near Pluto, which was destroyed by enemy action. * ''World of Ptavvs'' (1966), novel by Larry Niven. Pluto was theorized to have been a moon of Neptune until it was knocked out of orbit by an interstellar craft moving near lightspeed. A fusion-driven spacecraft landing on Pluto in this story releases the frozen methane, oxygen, etc., and causes the entire planet to be engulfed in flames. * "Wait It Out" (1968), short story by Larry Niven. An astronaut is stranded on Pluto, but doesn't die. * ''World's Fair 1992'' by Robert Silverberg (1968), in which a U.S.-led expedition reaches Pluto in less than two weeks using a nuclear-powered spacecraft capable of continuous acceleration. The spacecraft, ''Pluto I,'' collects five crab-like indigenous Plutonians and returns them to Earth orbit for study. * "Construction Shack" (1973), short story by Clifford D. Simak. The first mission to Pluto uncovers evidence suggesting that the solar system is nothing short of a huge alien engineering project gone awry. * ''Passage to Pluto'' (1973), Book 14 in the ''Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A.'' series by Hugh Walters. An expedition to Pluto discovers a super-dense wandering planet nearby. The astronauts name it Planet X and further discover that it is about to decimate the solar system. * Joe Haldeman's ''Forever War'' (1974) has the troops combat suit training occurring on Pluto. * "The Borderland of Sol" (1975), short story by Larry Niven that takes place ca. 2640. Pluto is dismissed as an escaped moon of Neptune, while the solar system's outer planets are listed as ''Neptune, Persephone, Caïna, Antenora,'' and ''Ptolemea'', with ''Judecca'' reserved for the next discovery. * ''Inherit the Stars'' (1977), first book of the ''Gentle Giants'' series by James P. Hogan. Pluto turns out to be the remains of Minerva, a planet that exploded to form the asteroid belt 50,000 years ago. * "Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe" (1977) by John Varley. Pluto is the setting of a coming-of-age story of a boy who discovers himself to be the clone of Pluto's finance minister. * ''Skyway Trilogy'' (1983) by John DeChancie. Pluto is the location of our solar system's dimensional gate to the interstellar "Skyway." * ''Icehenge'' (1985), novel by Kim Stanley Robinson. A mysterious monument is found on Pluto's north pole. * ''Vacuum Diagrams'' (2001), anthology by Stephen Baxter. In the story "Goose Summer" Frank Poole's wormhole system has placed a portal in the orbit of Pluto, when a survey mission is sent to the planet, the gate malfunctions and the two women explorers make a forced landing. It is later discovered that Pluto harbors life in the form of snowflake-like creatures who reproduce during the brightest phase of Pluto, the perihelion (closest point to the Sun), by sending strands of "cobwebs" from Charon, its moon, to seed the surface of Pluto. * ''The Sunborn'' (2006), a novel by Gregory Benford. The first expedition to Pluto discovers intelligent creatures thriving in -300°F (-185°C or 90 K) temperatures along the shore of the planet's nitrogen sea. These life forms are discovered to be an experiment conducted by magnetic entities living in the heliopause. * ''Before Dishonor'' (2007), a ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' novel by Peter David. A large Borg cubeship "consumes" the newly recategorized planet Pluto and its moons Charon, Nix and Hydra for resources before advancing to Earth's orbit. A character darkly remarked that after its status repeatedly bouncing back and forth over the past centuries, the problem of what to call Pluto had been eliminated. * ''Percival's Planet'' (2010), a novel by Michael Byers, dramatizes the search for and discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. * ''The Man Who...'' (2012), a short story by Simon Petrie. Comet-miners approaching the Pluto/Charon system uncover anomalous features of Pluto's fourth moon Kerberos, for which the name ''Erebus'' is used in the story. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pluto in fiction」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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