Theme: Planetary Adventure

A Planetary Adventure takes place on an Alien Planet. It may involve adventurers, explorers or else travellers who are stranded and trying to make it to safety or get off world. The story will follow said party as they make their way across the world, encountering aliens and their different societies, along with assorted examples of native flora and fauna.

Planetary Adventures are closely related to Space Operas – it could be said that the Planetary Adventure is simply a Space Opera where the scope of action is restricted to a single planet rather than takes place across a galaxy.

The first planetary adventurer in fiction was Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars; the most famous Planetary Adventures on screen were the adventures of Flash Gordon. There have been various other films and tv series, a number of which came out in the aftermath of Star Wars (1977).