Don't forget the asteroids as the ruins of a destroyed planet; that one was still around in the 1950s when Heinlein was writing his classic juveniles. It might have been one of the inspirations for Krypton's destruction. In any case, you could have a survivor of the ruined planet in suspended animation, or a desperate struggle over the similar destruction of Mars.
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Date: 2006-11-15 05:15 pm (UTC)