Asteroid Ceres in fiction

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As the largest body in the asteroid belt, the likely dwarf planet Ceres (formally "1 Ceres") frequently appears in science fiction:

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Literature

19th century

20th century

Comics

  • "Mummies of Ceres" is a 1936 storyline in the Buck Rogers comic strip.

Literature

Manga

  • In the Sailor Moon metaseries (1995), a subset of villains called the "Amazoness Quartet" appear in the fourth arc of the manga and its anime counterpart, Sailor Moon SuperS . The leader of the Amazoness Quartet is CereCere, who is later revealed to be a Sailor Guardian named Sailor Ceres.

21st century

Literature

  • In Ben Bova's series Asteroid Wars (2001–2007), a small mining base is established on Ceres.
  • In James S.A. Corey's Expanse series , Ceres is the largest colony in the asteroid belt, housing six million people. Ceres' rotational speed had been artificially increased prior to the events of the novels, providing its inhabitants with a weak artificial gravity. Inhabitants of Ceres, and the asteroid belt in general, are referred to as "Belters" and are much taller and thinner than the inhabitants of the inner planets because of the low gravity.

Films

Games

Television

See also

Notes

  1. C - Heinlein Concordance at www.heinleinsociety.org
  2. L.Neil Smith (2009). Ceres (Online ed.). (The final chapter and epilogue were posted in January 2010 and included in print versions beginning with the paperback, published in October 2011)
  3. Zone of the Enders The 2nd Runner at www.konami.jp

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