Pluto in Science Fiction

If you know of any stories or novels I may have missed, please let me know: e-mail Steven H Silver. On 17 January, 1997, Clyde William Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto, died.

Allen, Roger MacBride. The Ring of Charon. Tor, 1990.

Baxter, Stephen. "Gossamer." Science Fiction Age, November 1995.

Beattie, George B. "The 'Platinum Planets'." Wonder Stories, 8/32.

Benford, Gregory & Paul A. Carter. "Proserpina's Daughter." Synergy 3, edited by George Zebrowski, Harvest 1989. Reprinted as Iceborn, Tor 1989.

Benford, Gregory. Sunborn. Aspect/Warner 2005.

Binder, Eando. "The Thieves from Isot." Wonder Stories, 10/34.

Brunner, John. "Puzzle for Spacemen." New Worlds 12/55.

Brunner, John. "The Wrong End of Time." Amazing 11/71.

Budrys, Algis. Man of Earth. Ballantine, 1958.

Campbell, John W. "The Black Star Passes." Amazing Stories Quarterly Fall 1930.

Campbell, John W. "Islands of Space." Amazing Stories Quarterly Spring 1931.

Campbell, John W. "Night."Astounding Science Fiction 10/35.

Campbell, John W. "The Ultimate Weapon." Amazing 10/36.

Coblentz, Stanton. "Into Plutonian Depths." Wonder Stories Quarterly, Spring 1931. Later published in book form by Avon, 1950.

Coblentz, Stanton. "Riches for Pluto." Astounding, 12/34.

Couvillier, Willis. "Inheritance." Visual Journeys: A Tribute to Space Artists, edited by Eric Reynolds. Hadley Rille, 2007.

Daniel, Tony. Metaplanetary. Avon/Eos, 2001.

Daniel, Tony. Superluminal. Eos, 2004.

Dicks, Terrance. Doctor Who and the Sunmakers. Target Books, 1982.

Ferrell, Joseph. "Mind-Stealers of Pluto." Planet Stories, Winter, 1944.

Gallun, Raymond Z.. "Blue Haze on Pluto." Astounding, 6/35.

Gauger, Rick. Charon's Ark. Ballantine, 1987.

Gottesman, S.D. (C.M. Kornbluth, Robert A.W. Lowndes & Frederik Pohl) "The Castle on Outerplanet." Uncanny Tales, 10/41.

Gottesman, S.D. (C.M. Kornbluth & Frederik Pohl) "King Cole of Pluto." Super Science Stories, 5/40.

Greenland, Colin. Mother of Plenty. Avon Eos, 1999.

Greenland, Colin. Seasons of Plenty. AvoNova, 1996.

Greenland, Colin. Take Back Plenty. AvoNova, 1992.

Grinnell, David. Martian Missile. Thomas Bouregy and Co, 1959.

Harper, George W. Gypsy Earth. Doubleday, 1982.

Heinlein, Robert. Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. Scribner, 1958.

Heinlein, Robert. "Sky Lift." Imagination, 11/53.

Hunt, Gill. Vega. Curtis Warren, 1951.

Kenyon, Joseph P. "Pluto." Scream Factory, Fall 1993.

Kostkos, Henry J. "Earth Rehabilitors, Consolidated." Amazing Stories, 3-4/35.

Kruse, Clifton B. "A Princess of Pallis." Astounding Stories, 10/35.

Lavond, Dennis. (C.M. Kornbluth & Frederik Pohl) "A Prince of Pluto." Future Fiction, 4/41.

Latham, Philip (pen-name for R.S. Richardson). "The Rose-Bowl Pluto Hypothesis." Orbit 5, edited by Damon Knight. Putnam, 1969.

Laumer, Keith. "No Ship Boots in Fairyland," Once There Was a Giant. Edited by Keith Laumer. Tor, 1984.

Leinster, Murray. "Pipeline to Pluto." Astounding, 8/45.

Lowndes, Robert W. "Report of the Plutonian Ambassador by Sr. Doc Lowndes." Wonder Stories, 9/35.

Manning, Laurence & Fletcher Pratt. "Expedition to Pluto." Planet Stories, Winter, 1939.

Niven, Larry. "Wait It Out." Future Unbounded. Westercon Program Book, 1968.

Niven, Larry. World of Ptaavs, Ballentine, 1966.

Pack, Janet. "A Coin for Charon." Sol's Children, edited by Jena Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg. DAW Books, 2002.

Petrie, Simon. "The Man Who..." Redstone Science Fiction, 8/12.

Phillips, Rog. "Robot Men of Bubble City." Fantastic Adventures 7/49.

Pong, Hoy Ping (Wilson Tucker). "Report on the 196th Convention." Wonder Stories, 11/34.

Post, Jonathan V. "Skiing the Methane Snows of Pluto." Focus, Autumn, 1979.

Reeve, Philip. Mothstorm. Bloomsbury, 2008.

Rhoads, Edward. A Space Odd-Yssey . AuthorHouse, 2012.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. Icehenge. Jove, 1984.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. "On the North Pole of Pluto." Incorporated into Icehenge.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Memory of Whiteness. Tor, 1985.

Rocklynne, Ross. "The Last Outpost," Astounding, 7/45.

Scalzi, John. "Pluto Tells All." Subterranean Online, Spring 2007.

Scortia, Thomas N. "Sea Change," Astounding 6/56.

Scortia, Thomas N. "The Shores of Night." The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956, edited by T. E. Dikty, Fell 1956. (expansion of "Sea Change").

Silverberg, Robert. "Pluto in the Morning Light."

Silverberg, Robert. World's Fair 1992, Ace, 1982.

Simak, Clifford D. Cosmic Engineers. Gnome, 1950.

Simak, Clifford D. "Construction Shack." Worlds of If, 1-2/73.

Sloat, Edwin K. "Beyond the Planetoids." Amazing Stories, 8/32.

Smith, Clark Ashton. "The Plutonian Drug." Amazing Stories, 9/34.

Smith, E.E. "Doc". "The Skylark Valeron." Astounding Stories, 8/34-2/35.

Stangland, Arthur G. "Crossroads of Space." Wonder Stories, 9/32.

Starzl, R.F. "The Earthman's Burden." Astounding Stories, 6/31.

Starzl, R.F. "Planet of Despair." Wonder Stories, 7/31.

Statten, Vargo. (John Russell Fearn). Deadline to Pluto. Scion, 1951.

Stearn, Charles A. "The Pluto Lamp." Planet Stories, Fall 1954.

Sterling, Kenneth. "The Brain-Eaters of Pluto." Wonder Stories, 3/34.

Stone, Leslie F. "The Rape of the Solar System." Amazing Stories, 12/34.

Tubb, E.C. Alien Life. Paladin Press, 1954.

Tucker, Wilson. To the Tombaugh Station. Ace Double D-479, 1960

Varley, John. "Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe." Asimov's, Spring, 1977.

Varley, John. The Ophiuchi Hotline. Dial Press, 1977.

Voiskunsky, Evgeny. Nezakonaia Planete (The Illegal Planet). 1980.

Vos Post, Jonathan. "Skiing the Methane Snows on Pluto." Focus, Magazine of the British Science Fiction Association, Autumn 1979.

Wait, Robert A. "Cosmic Steeple-Chase." Amazing Stories, 4/32.

Walters, Hugh. Passage to Pluto. Nelson, 1973.

West, Wallace. "En Route to Pluto." Astounding, 8/36.

Weinbaum, Stanley. "The Red Peri." Astounding, 11/35.

Williams, Robert Moore. World of the Masterminds. Ace Double-427, 1960.

Williamson, Jack. The Cometeers. Fantasy Press, 1950.

Williamson, Jack. "The Plutonian Terror." Weird Tales, 10/33.

Winterbotham, R.R. "The Psycho Power Conquest." Astounding Stories, 2/36.

Wollheim, Donald A. The Secret of the Ninth Planet. Paperback Library, 1965.

Thanks to Andrew J. Breitenbach, Michael Dworestsky, Barry Haworth, Michael Herbert, Richard Kenney, Dave Sorgen, Igor Spajic, and Bill Winder.

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