Titan (moon)

:This page is about the moon of Saturn. For other meanings, see Titan (disambiguation).

Titan in fiction

Titan is one of the most popular settings in science fiction other than Earth's Moon and the planets.

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Moon - Planet

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Titan in literature

• 1935: Flight on Titan, a short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 1951: Titan is the Sol System home base of the parasitical aliens who attempt to take control of Earth in The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein.
• 1954: 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.
• 1959: Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan features a journey that climaxes on Titan.
• 1963: 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.
• 1976: 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.
• 1983: In James P. Hogan's novel Code of the Lifemaker, Titan is inhabited by a race of Clanking Replicators
• 1986: Stanis?aw Lem's novel Fiasco contains several chapters set on Titan, and a character who ends up frozen on the surface for several hundred years.
• 1997: In Stephen Baxter's novel Titan, a NASA mission to Titan must struggle to survive after a disastrous landing.
• 2000: In Michael McCollum's novel, The Clouds of Saturn (ISBN 0740805282), Titan is a homeworld of Envon and Kimber Crawford, and Arvin Taggart.

Titan in cinema and television

• 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 film Gattaca (1997), Titan is the goal for a space mission, which is seen lifting off in the final sequence.
• 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 1985 horror film Creature, Titan is where ancient aliens preserved dormant creatures from all over the galaxy.
• LV-426, the fictional moon in the scifi horror movie Alien, bears a striking resemblence to Titan. Like Titan, it orbits a ringed gas giant and possesses a substantial, "almost primordial" atmosphere of nitrogen and methane. Its size and surface temperature are also comparable, though it is described as having a rocky, lava base, as opposed to Titan's icy structure. There is also evidence of cryovulcanism on LV-426, just as some scientists suspect occurs on Titan.
• In Titan A.E. (2000), a spaceship called Titan is used as an escapepod after the destruction of Earth. 'Titan' as name for the spaceship is an homage to the possibility that Titan can bear life.
• In the German pulp science fiction series Perry Rhodan, Titan has a prison and advanced medical facilities.

Titan in comics and anime

• In the Marvel Comics Universe, Titan is home to a colony of Eternals, a godlike race of men and women.
• 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 anime Cowboy Bebop (1998), Titan was once the site of a war. It is unclear whether there was a colony on the moon.
• In the DC Comics Universe, Titan is home to a race of telepaths. Depending on what part of the continuity you are reading, they may have been seeded there in the late 20th century as a colony by Lar Gand (variously known as Mon-El, Valor and M'Onel). The most prominent example of a DC Titanian is Saturn Girl, a founding member of the 30th Century Legion of Super Heroes.

Titan in video games

• An Apple II game called Titan Empire had human inhabitants of this moon attempting to take over the solar system.
• In the table-top science fiction game Warhammer 40,000, the Grey Knights Space Marines 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.
• In the Activision game Battlezone (1998), Titan is the site of a Soviet base and several battles between the American, Soviet, and "Fury" forces.
• The game (1992) takes place mostly on Titan.
• Interplay's game Hardwar (1998) takes place in a fictionalized city called Misplaced Optimism, which is on Titan.
• Some levels of Descent (1994), as well as its second sequel, Descent 3 (2000), take place on Titan. In Descent you are in a mine, while in Descent 3 you travel to a proving ground.
• In Starlancer, Titan is the site of a major, decisive battle between Alliance and Coalition forces.