With all the recent brouhaha about Pluto planet classification, I thought it'd be fun to list science fiction stories in which Pluto plays a prominent role. The following list is culled from SciFan and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by John Clute and Peter Nicholls.

• Plutonia by Vladimir Obruchev (1924)


• Cosmic Engineers by Clifford D. Simak (1950)


• Man of Earth by Algis Budrys (1958)


• To the Tombaugh Station by Wilson Tucker (1960)


• World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven (1966)


• World's Fair, 1992 by Robert Silverberg (1970)


• Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven by Larry Niven (1975)


• The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley (1977)


• The Face of Evil by Terrance Dicks (1978)


• Tintagel by Paul Cook (1981)


• Icehenge by Kim Stanley Robinson (1984)


• The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson (1985)


• The Ring of Charon by Roger MacBride Allen (1990)


• Camelot 30K by Robert L. Forward (1993)


• Seasons of Plenty by Colin Greenland (1995)


• 2199 by Thomas Sutton (1997)


• Journey by Al Sarrantonio (1997)


• Mother of Plenty by Colin Greenland (1998)


• Covenant by Raymond J. Andrews (2000)


• Fear Infinity by Galen D. Kaufman (2000)


• Boomerang - East of the Sun - West of Pluto by Fred L. Ward (2001)


• The Octoroon Ball by Richard L. Breen Jr. (2001)


• Epicenter Johnny by John Fitz (2002)


• Sol's Children by Jean Rabe, Martin H. Greenberg (2002)


• Salvation by Raymond J. Andrews (2003)


• Pluto Runs Red by Steve M. Volk (2004)


• Superluminal by Tony Daniel (2004)

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