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* ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'': While the planet itself is round, Moth has uniquely-shaped ornamentation: it's a ''winged'' world, as it used to sport Saturn-like rings, but these were disrupted by a near-miss from a dwarf planet and split into two sections.

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* ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'': While the planet itself is round, Moth has uniquely-shaped ornamentation: it's a ''winged'' world, as it used to sport Saturn-like rings, but these were disrupted by a near-miss [[NearMisses near-miss]] from a dwarf planet and split into two sections.
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*** Gehenna (Lawful Evil-Neutral Evil) is a trio of volcanoes of limited size. In First Edition, it was three infinite flat plains... on which gravity functioned at 45 degrees to horizontal.

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*** Gehenna (Lawful Evil-Neutral Evil) is a trio quartet of volcanoes of limited size. In First Edition, it was three four infinite flat plains... on which gravity functioned at 45 degrees to horizontal.
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* Contact Binaries are the result of two small asteroids in a close orbit eventually colliding at a very slow speed and fusing. As the bodies don't have enough gravity to collapse under their own weight into a more spherical shape, the result is a world made of two (or potentially more) vaguely spherical lobes that may be very different in nature.

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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', many planets in the Screaming Vortex have impossible shapes, either due to the Immaterium's reality-warping nature, or because a Daemon Prince shaped it to their whim (one such example is a planet shaped like a giant, grinning skull). One of the most noteworthy planets is "The Hollows", a forge world where the Dark Mechanicus ate away at the southern hemisphere with deep-core mining technology until the entire planet consisting of only an upper hemisphere with a thick, gnarled stem of rock jutting from beneath, making the planet look like a rotten, half-eaten fruit.

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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', many planets in the Screaming Vortex ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Daemon Worlds often have impossible shapes, either due to the Immaterium's reality-warping nature, or because a Daemon Prince shaped it to their whim (one such example whims.
** Oliensis
is a planet single, impossibly large obese man, curled in a fetal position. The Chaos Marines that live there have built bases inside its skin pores.
** Planets in the Screaming Vortex include one
shaped like a giant, grinning skull). One of the most noteworthy planets is "The skull and "the Hollows", a forge world where the Dark Mechanicus ate away at the southern hemisphere with deep-core mining technology until the entire planet consisting of only an upper hemisphere with a thick, gnarled stem of rock jutting from beneath, making the planet look like a rotten, half-eaten fruit.
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* ''TabletopGame/RuneQuest'': The world of Glorantha is shaped like an enormous stone cube floating in the ocean. On its upper surface, patterned, weathered and scarred by ages of cataclysms and divine events, are the continents and oceans of the world. At its edges, the ocean drops off into a fathomless abyss and continues until the absolute edges of the universe, which form a perfect sphere around it. A few islands float on the waters just past the edges of the world proper, while the Underworld lies beneath Earth and Water at the bottom of the universe.
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* '''DysonSphere''' -- A spherical shell built around a star, typically to capture all of a star's energy or to maximize living area.
* '''FlatWorld''' -- Usually found in fantasy settings, generally as a flat disk carried about by huge animals or floating in space.

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* '''DysonSphere''' -- A spherical shell built around a star, typically to capture all of a star's energy or to maximize living area.
area. People live on the inside surface.
* '''FlatWorld''' -- Usually found in fantasy settings, generally as a flat disk carried about by huge animals or pillars or floating in space.space. Less commonly, examples may spread out infintely or gradually fade into nonexistence at their edges.



* '''RingWorldPlanet (concave cylinder or ribbon)''' -- Typically artificial and built by advanced civilizations for living space.

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* '''RingWorldPlanet (concave cylinder or ribbon)''' -- Typically artificial and built by advanced civilizations for living space. As in Dyson spheres, people live on the inside surface.
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* 4.4 billion years ago; a Mars-sized body collided with a planet with nine-tenths the mass of the Earth. Immediately after the collision; the Earth was formed as a fast-spinning oblate spheroid in the middle of a thick disc of orbiting debris that astronomers call a ''synestia''. The synestia eventually clumped up to form the Moon; but for a while the Earth and the disc together had a shape something [[{{Dissimile}} not entirely unlike]] that of a fried egg.

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* 4.4 billion years ago; a Mars-sized body collided with a planet with nine-tenths the mass of the Earth. Immediately after the collision; the Earth was formed as a fast-spinning oblate spheroid in the middle of a thick disc of orbiting debris that astronomers call debris, with the two sharing a ''synestia''. common atmosphere. The synestia disc eventually clumped up to form the Moon; but for a while the Earth and the disc together had a shape something [[{{Dissimile}} not entirely unlike]] that of a fried egg.egg. Astronomers call this structure a ''synestia''.

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