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* This is revealed to be the fate of the [[Future Imperfect|legendary human homeworld]] of "Dirt" in the ''[[The Stainless Steel Rat]]'' [[The Verse|'verse]], due to changing orbit.

* Frank Herbert's ''[[Dune]]'': Arrakis and Salusa Secundus might be the [[Trope Maker]] for many. As of the first novel, only about half of those born on Salusa live past puberty. Salusa Secundus is the home world for the feared Imperial Sardukar. One of the reasons they are so feared and elite is that simply surviving long enough to be recruited makes you a [[Badass]] by default.

* The planet Moros from Douglas Hill's ''[[Last Legionary]]'' series. The extremely hostile nature of the planet is the reason the Legionaries of Moros are so capable and therefore so in demand as mercenaries.

* The eponymous planet in the [[Stephen King]] short story ''Beachworld'' was covered in a sort of living sand that hypnotized people and worked its way into any machinery.

* As if the [[Deadly Game]] the Capital created in ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]'' wasn't enough, the designers make sure the arena is just as dangerous as the contestants: traps (deadly gas, forest fires), environmental disasters (volcanoes, tidal waves), [[Everything Trying to Kill You|horrible beasts]] (which range from [[Wolf Man]] muttations to [[Killer Rabbit|flesh-eating squirrels]])...

* [[Earth-That-Was|Earth]] in ''Waging Good'' by [[Robert Reed]] has an atmosphere pumped full of microscopic war machines, which enter the [[Your Head Asplode|blood stream and violently explode in the head]], viruses which infect pregnant women and turn the fetus into a living [[Fetus Terrible|poison factory]] or [[Tyke Bomb]], good ol' radiation, and chemical warfare agents.