Tuesday, March 08, 2005
In Greek Mythology, the Titans are a race of Godlike giants
Titan in fiction
- 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.
- 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.
- In Stephen Baxter's novel Titan, a NASA mission to Titan must struggle to survive after a disastrous landing.
- Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan features a journey that climaxes on Titan.
- 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 television show Starhunter, Titan features prominently as the former home of the character Dante, and is the site of a large colony.
- 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 Marvel Comics Universe, Titan is home to a colony of Eternals, a godlike race of men and women.
- In the movie Gattaca (1997), Titan is the goal for a space mission at the movie's climax.
- 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.
- An Apple II game called Titan Empire had human inhabitants of this moon attempting to take over the solar system.
- In the novel Shattered Faith by Trevor Mark, Titan is the center of a vast extraterrestrial civilization that is angered by an ancient injustice, and aims for Earth to seek revenge.
- 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.
- In the table-top science fiction game Warhammer 40,000 the Grey Knights Space Marine 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.
- Flight on Titan, a short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum
- In James P. Hogan's novel Code of the Lifemaker, Titan is inhabited by a race of Clanking Replicators
In Greek mythology, the Titans are a race of godlike giants who were considered to be the personifications of the forces of nature. They are the twelve children (six sons and six daughters) of Gaia and Uranus. Each son married, or had children of, one of his sisters. They are: Cronus and Rhea, Iapetus and Themis, Oceanus and Tethys, Hyperion and Theia, Crius and Mnemosyne, and Coeus and Phoebe.
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