Template:Did you know nominations/Saturn in fiction

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 02:00, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Saturn in fiction

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The rings of Saturn

• ... that the visual appeal of its rings (pictured) has made Saturn popular in fiction? Source: Wanderer am Himmel, p. 230
  • ALT1: ... that fictional life on Saturn's largest moon Titan has commonly been portrayed as slug-like, starting with Stanley G. Weinbaum's 1935 "Flight on Titan" (pictured)? Source: "Under Titan's Green Sky: Titan in Science Fiction and Science", p. 6

March 1951 cover of Avon Fantasy Reader, featuring Stanley G. Weinbaum's "Flight on Titan" (here under the variant title "A Man, A Maid, and Saturn's Temptation") and its telepathic Titanian threadworm.

• • ALT2: ... that in early depictions of Saturn in fiction, it was portrayed as a solid planet (example pictured)? Source: Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia, p. 553

Characters on the surface of Saturn in A Journey in Other Worlds, with the rings visible in the sky

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
  • Comment: The three proposed hooks use three different images. I'll see if I can figure out how to include all three images in the nomination.

Improved to Good Article status by TompaDompa (talk). Self-nominated at 09:59, 10 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Saturn in fiction; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• date, GA status, length, close paraphrase check ok. My preference is for the original hook, with File:Saturn - April 25 2016 (46435379305).jpg as the image used. --Soman (talk) 15:39, 10 February 2023 (UTC)