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prismatic-bell:
intimatopia:
glumshoe:
sufficientlylargen:
glumshoe:
Ice planets? Boring.
Desert planets? Overdone.
Rainforest planets? Ugh!
It’s time for other kinds of single-biome planets to take the lead in science fiction. More representation of taiga planets, please! How about chaparral planets?
A planet of nothing but beaches… There’s no water or anything, but there are always shorebirds and you sometimes find beached sea life and somehow you can always hear and smell the ocean, even though it doesn’t exist.
Maybe the entire planet is covered in water, but only very, very shallowly, so that it’s like walking on the sand flats/swash forever and ever. it looks like a desert, but when you step on the surface, your foot sinks into the sand a few inches and your footprints fill with water. There are mole crabs and beach hoppers and kelp flies and blood worms, and parasitic sand fleas that will infect the skin of unwary travelers foolish enough to allow the soothing warmth of the wet sand to lull them to sleep, and somehow your sand castles always wash away…
It’s a commercially useless planet, but of great interest to ecologists and planetary geologists alike. Its uniform bleakness does not attract many tourists despite its unique biome.
it was a rock planet at first, but changes in climate flooded the planet with water. because the planet had harsh winds, the rocks had long since been worn flat and dust blew around all the time, making it uninhabitable.
then changes in the nearby sun triggered climate change which led to a few decades of continuous rainfall, turning the planet into a silty, waterlogged world. another few millennia wore down the top layers of rock into sand.
Y’all should read a short story by Stephen King called Beachworld. Creepy as FUCK but definitely in this line.
Or there is a sea, but it moves. The moon is so close to the world that the seas chase it around the world’s surface, cutting new canyons and beaches as it goes…
prismatic-bell:
intimatopia:
glumshoe:
sufficientlylargen:
glumshoe:
Ice planets? Boring.
Desert planets? Overdone.
Rainforest planets? Ugh!
It’s time for other kinds of single-biome planets to take the lead in science fiction. More representation of taiga planets, please! How about chaparral planets?
A planet of nothing but beaches… There’s no water or anything, but there are always shorebirds and you sometimes find beached sea life and somehow you can always hear and smell the ocean, even though it doesn’t exist.
Maybe the entire planet is covered in water, but only very, very shallowly, so that it’s like walking on the sand flats/swash forever and ever. it looks like a desert, but when you step on the surface, your foot sinks into the sand a few inches and your footprints fill with water. There are mole crabs and beach hoppers and kelp flies and blood worms, and parasitic sand fleas that will infect the skin of unwary travelers foolish enough to allow the soothing warmth of the wet sand to lull them to sleep, and somehow your sand castles always wash away…
It’s a commercially useless planet, but of great interest to ecologists and planetary geologists alike. Its uniform bleakness does not attract many tourists despite its unique biome.
it was a rock planet at first, but changes in climate flooded the planet with water. because the planet had harsh winds, the rocks had long since been worn flat and dust blew around all the time, making it uninhabitable.
then changes in the nearby sun triggered climate change which led to a few decades of continuous rainfall, turning the planet into a silty, waterlogged world. another few millennia wore down the top layers of rock into sand.
Y’all should read a short story by Stephen King called Beachworld. Creepy as FUCK but definitely in this line.
Or there is a sea, but it moves. The moon is so close to the world that the seas chase it around the world’s surface, cutting new canyons and beaches as it goes…