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Good point - I should open it up for additional contributions for each letter! Entries welcome :)
You'll get inundated by us self-pub SF writers...there are always more planets (and populated moons).And you could amass a pretty big list just from the books of Peter F. Hamilton or Iain M. Banks or Alastair Reynolds or...any number of currently writing SF authors.
Which brings up an interesting question: is the internet big enough to hold a complete list of all planets ever included in a SF book? He he.
Lovely idea for a list! I've written all the planets of our Solar System into my SF, including Pluto, whose inhabitants insist that Pluto is a planet.
And you must include Earth and our Moon of course!
Lol, that was the first thing I was going to check Micah. Maybe all 42 is a bit much, but Arrakis at least seems like an absolute must. Ok, and maybe Kaitain, Salusa Secundus, Caladan and Giedi Prime. And Chapterhouse. Ok maybe we need all of them?
No, I can't see a complete list / database of scifi planets anywhere on the 'net. The closest I got was wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_...I think this list needs to be made and, furthermore, when we discover an exoplanet that matches a planet from the list (on a Planetary Similarity Index {PSI} - I've made this up based on the actual Earth Simiarity Index {ESI} http://phl.upr.edu/projects/earth-sim...), then the planet should adopt that name!
It would be better than the current batch of names like Kepler 296-f etc
I recently posted this on my blog for a bit of fun. Hopefully worth a read.