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* Parodied in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/The Restaurant At The End of The Universe|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' (the second ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Hitchhiker's Guide]]'' book), where the planet Ursa Minor Beta has not only a homogeneous geography (subtropical coast) but a perpetual Saturday afternoon.
* Lusitania in [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''[[Ender's Game|Speaker for the Dead]]'' series is a Forest Planet with a bare handful of species to its name. This is totally justified, though - [[Precursors]] terraformed it using a virus to suit their needs.
* Lampshaded in
* Several Territories in ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'' qualify. Cloral is an Ocean Planet, Zadaa is a Desert Planet, and Eelong is a Jungle Planet.
** Cloral currently has one piece of dry land. Eelong is never stated to be completely jungle, the whole book just happens to have taken place in a jungle region. [[All in The Manual|In the expanded works]], Denduron is shown to be almost completely covered in ice with only some temperate zones near the equator.
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* Classic ''[[Traveller]]'' had desert planets (hydrographic % = 0), ocean planets (hydrographic % = 100, called "water worlds" long before the Kevin Costner movie), and ice planets (such as Mithril in Double Adventure 2 Mission on Mithril).
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]'' supplement ''Curse of the Chthonians'', adventure "The City Without A Name". If the investigators are very unlucky they can go through a Gate to the home planet of the Chthonians, which is a "monstrous violent world of volcanic upheavals and earthquakes", i.e. a Volcano Planet.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''
** [[Planescape]] setting solved this by splitting planes into layers and realms, each of which is easy to describe, because the areas that stand out would rather form a separate layer. E.g. [http://images.yuku.com/image/pjpeg/45536ba641a897edcc85536f05a293fe97906a7c.jpg The Nine Hells of Baator] - the whole place is [[Death World]], and most layers are quite uniform, but the whole gets more diverse the further "down" you go - the only constant being that it gets considerably more horrible with each level. The surface Avernus is along the lines of a volcanic wasteland under dark red skies, the second layer is the iron city of Dis where petitioners are slaves raising and tearing down structures with bare hands, and it's scalding hot there; the third is Minauros - a foul bog with ridges of volcanic glass scoured with razor-sharp hail and corrosive rain; then there's fiery Phlegetos, frozen sea of Stygia, endless pile of rocks Malbolge, Maladomini - land of ruins, mine pits and so on, glacier mountains of Cania, and finally Nessus - the place of extremes: a plain shattered with botomless rifts, with fires and ice and everything.
** The [[Spelljammer]] setting featured a number of [[Single Biome Planet|Single Biome Planets]]. At least, in "at a glance" supplements; detailed ones tend to give more details - e.g. Anadia is [[Forgotten Realms|Realmspace]] equivalent of Venus with breathable air, thus while two little areas (where a more hospitable world would have icecaps) are habitable for typical humanoids - and even then, only halflings actually live there - the rest of surface is not.
* Mongoose Publishing
** ''[[Starship Troopers]] RPG''
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