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Worlds (“planets”) that are not spherical in shape. Includes cubeworlds, infinite planes, and any of Slartibartfast’s novelties. NOT for ordinary spherical habitats.

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Can a nonspherical planet exist and can it be habitable?

Hard SF writer Hal Clement wrote a delightful book in 1953, Mission of Gravity, which introduced a very physically correct non-spheroidal world, Mesklin. Mesklin, a high-mass planet subject to extreme …
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