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Planets are large celestial bodies in orbit around a star. Sometimes, large moons are also called planets - especially if they are able to support some kind of life. A typically habitable planet is about 6,000 kilometres in diameter, while large gas giants can be much bigger. Planets can be host to millions of sentient inhabitants, or barren wastelands, or anywhere in between.

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Two men are guests on a planet terraformed some generations ago. All earth livestock died. L...

"Courtship Rite" by Donald Kingsbury as per Book where humans on another planets are cannibals Geta is a harsh planet settled by humanity centuries before the novel begins. …
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Animated series with secret inside planet stardrive

The four habitable planets are in a constant state of war, always raiding one another for resources unique to each planet. … A large part of the series mythology in the second season is the World Engines, a propulsion system built into the planets of the Cluster (and presumably many other worlds, since two different planets
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Long isolated human colony. People live in trees and have changed a lot. A 'pursemaker' is i...

James Blish's "The Thing in the Attic" Honath the Pursemaker is a heretic. He doesn’t believe the stories in the Book of Laws which claims giants created his tree-dwelling race. He makes his opinion …
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Novel or short story. A planet is settled by Irish Catholics. Snakes are important part of e...

What sets this world apart from all the other livable planets men have put down their smelly spaceships on? There's no snakes here! St. Patrick has great influence up in Heaven. …
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Old sci fi story about a ship that arrives on an alien planet and watches evolution from bac...

Might you be thinking of "Mutation Planet" (1973) by Barrington J. Bayley as per Planet of animals that evolve in minutes? Filled with ominous mutterings, troubled by ground-trembling rumblings, the …
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Humans are kept as livestock by aliens. They all know an old song. The song teaches them how...

As per Short story about humans as beasts of burden for another race, read about 30 years ago, The Silk and the Song (1956) by Charles L. Fontenay. The song is to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little …
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