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Related to [[Floating Continent]].
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* Played straight and justified in the novel ''[http://www.wilmccarthy.com/tc.htm The Collapsium]'' by [[Wil Mc Carthy]]: one of the main characters lives on an artificially constructed planet which is only a few hundred kilometers wide. It has a core made out of [[wikipedia:Degenerate matter|degenerate matter in the form of neutronium]] which gives it Earth-normal gravity, holds it in a spherical shape and allows it to retain an atmosphere.
* The [[Mushroom Planet]] in the eponymous novels.
* The [[Frederic Brown]] story ''Placet is a Crazy Place'' features a tiny planet with a breathable atmosphere with a core made of degenerate matter to give it its shape and gravity. It even has life forms made of degenerate matter that "fly" through the crust (which is like air to them since they are so dense), causing earthquakes. It obviously suffers from the "what keeps the degenerate matter from expanding" problem, but might be excused since it is a story from the 40s and [[Science Marches On]].
** Also, the degenerate matter "birds" that cause earthquakes are completely 100% excused by the [[Rule of Funny]].
* Gary Gibson's ''Stealing Light'' has at least one asteroid fitted with a Shoal 'world engine', and their Coreships.
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* Season 2 of ''[[Lexx]]'' had something like this, a small planetoid with an artificial atmosphere that was a TV studio center. Our 'heroes' wind up there and find that if their ratings slide they'll be in trouble.
** There was also an episode where a planetoid was so small you could see grazing sheep on its surface from orbit. For unexplained reasons, it had Earthlike gravity.
* Aversion: In the original ''[[Star Trek: The
* The official atlas for the [[Firefly]] verse says even the small moons, barely large enough to be balls (think Mimas or Enceladus), are terraformed using gravitic technology.
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* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]''
* The Special Stages of ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]''.
* The cover of ''[[
* ''[[Populous:
* The Prince Planet in ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'' (very obviously based on [[The Little Prince]]'s,) as well as Earth itself if you get big enough to notice the curvature.
* The cover of ''[[Animal Crossing]]: Wild World'', and in addition, in-game the ground curves downward into the distance.
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* The ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' portrayal of Cybertron. Curvature could often be seen, and buildings could be seen from space. When Cybertron was moved into Earth's orbit, it was shown to be smaller than the moon - close enough for a plane-bot to fly to in under a minute, and yet the entire planet could be easily seen whenever it was in frame. Asteroid-sized is generous, and yet it's shown to have gravity comparable to Earth.
** And then in the comics it's the size of Saturn. [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|Way too far the other way, guys.]]
*** Arguably, that issue is [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the fact that [[That's No Moon|Cybertron itself is the body of]] [[Physical God|Primus]]. [[Doing
* In ''[[Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century]]'', Planet X gets reduced down to a rock that's barely large enough for Dodgers and Marvin Martian to both stand on. Nonetheless, it still has air, and some weird kind of gravity that allows someone to ''fall off''.
{{quote|'''Duck Dodgers''': As I was saying, this planet ain't big enough for the both of us! *pushes Marvin off* I claim this planet in the name of the Earth!
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