Plato in Fiction
The crater Plato is the location of an observatory in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Earthlight (1955) and of Moonbase Alpha in the science-fiction TV series Space: 1999.
Crater Plato is the home crater of Matthew Looney and Maria Looney, protagonists of the Looney series of children's books set on the Moon, written by Jerome Beatty.
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Famous quotes containing the words plato and/or fiction:
“Man is the measure of all things; of that which is, that it is; of that which is not, that it is not.”
—Protagoras or Plato (c. 490–421 B.C.)
“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)