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* In Roger Zelazny's ''Isle of the Dead'', Francis Sandow owns at least one planet, and doesn't know how rich he is. He lost count a long time ago and was never that interested. There's just nothing buyable beyond his means.

* In ''[[Neuromancer]]'', John and Marie-France Tessier-Ashpool retired from the public eye to legal death in a cryo-storage system at the Villa Straylight -- the private half of their orbital citystation "Freeside".

* In Daniel Keys Moran's ''Tales Of The Continuing Time'' series, Francis Xavier Chandler, who is the wealthiest person in the Solar System, owns an orbital house which is larger than some of the Belt City-States. It is a huge slowly rotating cylinder with three levels of increasing gravity, roughly 800 rooms and a free fall swimming pool and zero G racquetball court in the center. The gym is usually attached directly to the house, but when someone wants to exercise, the gym and a counterweight are extended 800 meters away from the house, and a motor then spins both of them until earth normal gravity is achieved. The process takes roughly an hour.

* In [[H. G. Wells]]' ''When the Sleeper Wakes'', Graham ([[Only One Name|no first name given]]), through an unintentional [[Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit]], awakens in 2200 to a world groaning under the tyrannical misrule of his own trustees.