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* In C.S. Friedman's ''[[Madness Season]]'', the protagonist at one point looks up archive footage of the Tyr's home planet. He's somewhat unnerved to find endless unbroken kilometers of lush blue plant growth from pole to pole, broken only by oceans teeming with life. {{spoiler|It turns out he's only viewing it during a very narrow portion of its solar orbit; nine years out of ten, the planet is either a frozen wasteland as its orbit carries it out to the far reaches of the solar system, or a boiling hellhole as it comes too near the sun. It looks as nice as it does during spring because all the planet's life has to put out as much growth as it can during the brief live periods.}}
* The trope is justified with planet Droplet in [[Star Trek: Titan]]. It's an ocean world based upon genuine (and cutting-edge) scientific theories. While most such worlds wouldn't have higher order life, due to a lack of landmass to provide mineral runoff, the novel provides a reasonable explanation for the existence of a complex ecosystem on Droplet. Essentially, the life-cycle of a native plankton aids in bringing heavier elements from the hypersaline depths to the surface
* In almost every drawing or painting of Earth created prior to the famous [[wikipedia:The Blue Marble|Blue Marble]] photos, the Earth was apparently a single-weather-system planet, with not a cloud to be seen anywhere.
* Beachworld, a short story by [[Stephen King]], is a very creepy deconstruction of an all-desert planet.
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** Barring intervention, in a few billion years, the increasingly hot Sun will boil off the Earth's oceans, leaving a desert planet. Before, that is, it gets hot enough to [[Rule of Three|turn it into a lava planet again.]]
** Some of the moons also count:
*** Jupiter's moon [[wikipedia:Europa
*** If you want a volcano world, look no further than Io.
*** Titan (Saturn's moon) would be a dark (ice) world. It's far from the sun, and the atmosphere has an organic haze that blocks most of the sunlight that does reach it.
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