Quotes / Alien Sky

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Comics Books

Putting the ship into hyper-drive, Superman takes a shortcut through sub-space, to emerge near a giant world beneath a mammoth red Sun...

— The Krypton Chronicles

"And the Sun— something's wrong— something's wrong with the Sun! This isn't Krypton!"

—Supergirl, Last Daughter of Krypton

Fan Works

The star-system of Qward had twin suns for the last thousand years. The new one was rather small, as stars go, but a star is a star, for all that.

—Hellsister Trilogy

The party had been over for some time. Shinji and Asuka strolled hand in hand on the edge of the lake. Its waters glimmered in the silvery light of both moons.

—HERZ, epilogue

There was coolness in the early fall night, and the light of the stars and one of Rokyn's two small-but-full moons shining through the open window of her bedroom.

—Kara of Rokyn

It was a normal day on the planet Areax IV. The system's binary stars were both in the orange sky, light being reflected by the dust and ice of the planet's rings in a constantly-shifting aurora that left shadows dancing across every surface.

—The Violet Demon

Literature

They flew in the savagery of Jupiter's Red Spot, mightiest of maelstroms, the tempest to swallow worlds—and then, in a quieter part of that planet of skies, glided and beheld a golden heaven in which moons bobbed above clouds the size of continents.

—Alien in a Small Town

"Oh, to see the sun and taste the breeze" the freezie said, clearly on the edge of tears. "Whatever happens, I've seen this once more." He hesitated. "Why is the sky that strange purplish color?"
"Strange?" Ryan echoed. "It's nearly always that color."
Doc smiled sadly. "It wasn't always so, Ryan. What our new companion says is correct. The skies were always blue when I was a lad. Yellow sun. White clouds. Not the hideous hues of the chem clouds and the dark nuke sky that haunts us all."

— Deathlands, "Ice and Fire"

Gundersen looked up and saw the tiny white disk moving rapidly, low in the sky, seemingly skimming the fringe of the treetops. Belzagor's five moons were a random assortment, the closest one just outside Roche's Limit, the farthest so distant it was visible only to sharp eyes on a clear night. At any given time two or three moons were in the night sky, but the fourth and fifth moons had such eccentric orbits that they could never be seen at all from vast regions of the planet, and passed over most other zones no more than three or four times a year. One night each year all five moons could be seen at once, just along a band ten kilometers wide running at an angle of about forty degrees to the equator from northeast to south-west. Gundersen had experienced the Night of Five Moons only a single time.

—Downward to the Earth:

I glance up at the empty black sky, and find myself inexplicably entranced. There's no moon tonight, no clouds, no planets, and the featureless darkness refuses to sustain any comforting illusion of scale; I might be staring at infinity, or the backs of my own eyelids.

—Quarantine (1992)

Deep deep black, the sky, falling away forever, blazing with the light of thousands and thousands of stars, far more than you'd ever seen above any earthly city, dominated by a full moon a dozen times larger than the poor pallid thing Joanna was used to seeing. I've never been sure whether the moon really is bigger in the Nightside, or whether it's just closer.

— Something from the Nightside

"It's something like the inside of a cave, sort of — only not dark. But the light is — funny. Nobody ever saw light like that on Earth. Orangy-brownish light, brilliant, very brilliant, but sort of threatening. Like the way the sky is threatening in the summer around sunset just before a smasher of a thunderstorm. Only there never is any thunderstorm because there isn't a drop of water around."

—Jack O'Shea on the Venusian environment, The Space Merchants

MOON(S). There is usually only one moon visible, as in our own world. This has given rise to the theory that Fantasyland is an Earth-Alternate, but that may be a false idea since there have been rare sightings of other moons in the sky, often two or three at once and in some cases pink or red or blue. One hesitates to query these sightings. Sometimes a cluster of moons hangs forever in the same position in the sky, revealing that Astronomy is not the Management's strong point.

—The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Live-Action TV

Spock: Vulcan has no moon.
Uhura: I'm not surprised.

—Star Trek: The Original Series

Tabletop Games

"I peered into the heavens, searching for familiar sights, but found nothing I knew. All was strange and disquieting, as though we were adrift in alien seas."

—Description of Alien Skies, one of the Signs of the End Times, in Elder Evils, Dungeons & Dragons

Video Games

Scientists speculate that the view from the surface [of Tylo], with Laythe, Vall, and Jool overhead, must be "quite something".

—Kerbal Space Program

The breeze, winter-cold, enters through an arched window. Through it, you can see a dark sky.
The sun is black. It squirms.

— Sunless Sea: Zubmariner DLC, found within a certain Eye

Webcomics

You drag what's left of yourself to an as of yet unsmashed pew for a better look at what lies outside the dungeon. It ... looks like the sky, but...
yellow, and orange, swirling in a way you have never seen a sky do.
...And the longer you stare at it
the more you can begin to make out a shape
something colossal
bigger than you
bigger than this dungeon
beyond the sky
behind it
beating on it
It wants inside.

—My Delirium Alcazar

Web Original

Today's forecast is really weird.

—What If?, Alt Text from Question 145: Fire from Moonlight.

Western Animation

Midgel: Blue grass, green skies, and no ants.
Michelle: Don't you mean green grass and blue skies?

— 3-2-1 Penguins!, "Lazy Daze"

Other/Unsorted

Crewman Bubbles: Where are we, Captain?
Captain Quirk: By the looks of the orange sky, I would say Stage 7B at Desilu Studios.
Crewman Bubbles: But Desilu Studios ended at the same time Star Trek did, Captain. Neither exist anymore.
Captain Quirk: Listen, if I wanted intelligent conversation, I'd have invited that pointy-eared guy.

—Sex Trek: Charly XXX

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