Uranus in fiction

[9] Various explanations for this lack of representation have been proposed, including the planet's relatively late date of discovery,[2][4] its remote location,[1][6] its presumed hostile environmental conditions,[3] and its featureless appearance in telescopes.

[1][5][10] In the subgenre of works visiting multiple locations in the Solar System that appeared throughout the 19th century, Uranus was rarely included,[1] one exception being the anonymously published 1837 novel Journeys into the Moon, Several Planets and the Sun.

[1][3][11][12] Clifton B. Kruse's 1936 short story "Code of the Spaceways" likewise portrays the planet as having a solid surface, where space pirates with a paralysis ray have taken over a military base.

[1][4] The moons are preserved in their natural state in some works such as Kim Stanley Robinson's 1996 novel Blue Mars, and subject to resource extraction by way of space mining in others such as the video game Descent.

[1][11][20] Titania, which was discovered a few years after Uranus itself in 1787, appears in the tabletop role-playing game Eclipse Phase, where its canyon system Messina Chasmata is a tourist attraction.