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[[Uranus]] was discovered in 1781 and has rarely been featured in fiction since then.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stableford|first=Brian M.|title=Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia|date=2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-97460-8|pages=540–541|language=en|chapter=Uranus|author-link=Brian Stableford|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uefwmdROKTAC&pg=PA540}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|editor-last=Clute|editor-first=John|editor-link=John Clute|editor2-last=Langford|editor2-first=David|editor2-link=David Langford|editor3-last=Sleight|editor3-first=Graham|editor3-link=Graham Sleight|title=Outer Planets|url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/outer_planets|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-20|website=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]|quote=Uranus is little discussed in traditional sf. Stanley G Weinbaum's "The Planet of Doubt" (October 1935 Astounding) is one of the rare stories set on this world. The titular Cities of Cecelia Holland's ''Floating Worlds'' (1976) float above Saturn and Uranus.|edition=4th}}</ref> The earliest such works, such as [[Stanley G. Weinbaum]]'s 1935 short story "[[The Planet of Doubt]]" and [[Clifton B. Kruse]]'s 1936 short story "[[Code of the Spaceways]]", portray it as having a solid surface rather than mostly consisting of a gaseous atmosphere.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Westfahl|first=Gary|title=Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]|date=2021-07-19|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-4408-6617-3|pages=485–487|language=en|chapter=Outer Planets|author-link=Gary Westfahl|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p5U2EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA486}}</ref> Uranus' moon [[Miranda (moon)|Miranda]] features in the 1993 short story "[[Into the Miranda Rift]]" by [[G. David Nordley]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=McKinney|first=Richard L.|title=[[The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders]]|date=2005|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32951-7|editor-last=Westfahl|editor-first=Gary|editor-link=Gary Westfahl|page=449|language=en|chapter=Jupiter and the Outer Planets|quote=Among stories dealing with Uranus are Stanley G. Weinbaum's "The Planet of Doubt" (1935), involving strange aliens on its surface; Charles Sheffield's "Dies Irae" (1985), about adapting life to survive in the planet's atmosphere; and Geoffrey Landis's "Into the Blue Abyss" (1999), in which alien lifeforms are found in the Uranian ocean. G. David Nordley's "Into the Miranda Rift" (1993) is about human explorers trapped on the mysterious, jigsaw-puzzle moon, Miranda.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQMQQyIaACYC&pg=PA449}}</ref>
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