Neptune in fiction
The planet Neptune has been used as a reference and setting in various films and works of fiction: ▪ In H. G. Wells's short story
The Star, Neptune is destroyed in a collision with another supermassive object which reduces its orbital velocity to zero; the wreckage falls into the Sun, narrowly missing Earth. ▪ In the Captain Future series, Neptune is portrayed as a sea planet, not out of any scientific theory but evidently because Neptune is the Roman sea god. ▪ In Olaf Stapledon's 1930 epic novel
Last and First Men, Neptune is the final home of the highly evolved human race. The planet is depicted as having a dense atmosphere but with a solid surface. ▪ In Hugh Walters' 1968 novel
Nearly Neptune, the first manned expedition to Neptune ends in apparent disaster as a fire destroys vital equipment on board the spacecraft as it nears the planet. ▪ The planet served as the backdrop for the 1997 science fiction/horror film
Event Horizon. ▪ The humorous short story, "The Elephants on Neptune" by Mike Resnick, was published in
Asimov's Science Fiction, and was nominated for both a Hugo and a Nebula award.