Ooranye
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Ooranye
is the
seventh planet from the Sun. Terrestrial astronomers used
to call it Uranus,
until the day of the mysterious so-called Fostering. On that date, the 10th of
July A.D. 3564, its true nature surfaced in our continuum - whereupon it
was revealed not as a lifeless gas-giant but as a solid, inhabited
world.
This
"surfacing" was retrospective: once it had happened, it
had always been. We may therefore truly say that civilization on Ooranye
predates that on Earth by about 1.2 million years.
Contents of the site:
Planetology
Physical
Geography
Size and area - Day and night -
Timekeeping - The two hemispheres of Ooranye - The interior of Ooranye - The
plains and the mountains - Environmental
change
Life
Intelligent
life
Nenns: Introduction - Cities - The disc-on-stem
cities - The cities of Oirr - The cities of Starside
- Institutions - Sunnoads
- Languages - Mentality -
Names
Other
intelligent life: Gedars - Kalyars
- Quonians - Ghepions
- Nemaeans - Sentient
cities - The world
spirit - Transient
Species
Other
life-forms: Flora - Fauna - Micro-organisms (the throom and the
bneen) - Clouds
Maps: Notes on Uranian
cartography - Northern (Sunward) hemisphere - Southern (Starward)
hemisphere
History
Introduction: The Great Cycle - The 91
eras - Historical dating systems - Table of eras, dates,
events
Survey of Uranian
history
From Dmara to the Great
Fleet
The Hydrogen Era - Syoom and Fyaym - The
Lithium Era - The Plunderers - The First Sunnoad - The Phosphorus
Era
- The Great Fleet
To the end of the Vanadium
Era
The Argon Era - Nalre Zitpoidl and the
Great Winter - The Vanadium Era -
Revolutions
To the Foam
The Cobalt Era - The Quonians - The Zinc
Era - The Age of Spies - The Institutes of Fate - The Ghepions -
The Last Great Hive - The
Foam
To the Rhenium Moment
The Praesodymium Spotlight - The
Prospectors - The 'Dassan Call - The Age of the Wise - Holding the
Line - The Kalyars - The Rhenium
Moment
To the Mascon
Expeditions
The Great Triangle - The Sunnoad's Navy -
The Quest for Solor - The Cyborgs - The Era of Psi - The Mascon
Expeditions
To Era Zed
Impostor
- Invasion - Tu Rim
- The Actinium Fulfilment - The Assault on
Arclour
Stories
Forum
Reference
Readership
The world of Ooranye was invented, and its tales
written, for the following kinds of reader:
Those who love the colour, ease and freedom of the worlds of Edgar Rice
Burroughs, especially Barsoom, even though they may wish at times that the tales
were more consistent and that the plots did not so often depend
upon the kidnaping of princesses
Those who enjoy the worlds of Leigh Brackett, even
though they may wish at times that she had not given Celtic names to
Martian cities and people
Those who enjoy any series of novellas
interlinked by a common background of invented worlds or civilizations, which
build up into a sprawling science-fiction or fantasy epic, such as -
the many worlds of Clark Ashton Smith
the Hub series of James H Schmitz
the Instrumentality series of Cordwainer Smith
Those who like planetary adventure especially
when set in our Solar System - and especially in the Solar System as it was before it was
to some extent "de-mystified" by space-probes
Above all, those who want a world to explore which
is huge, varied, mysterious, rich in history, different enough to be
interesting but not so strange as to lose all human relevance, and
with endless potential for adventure.
