Double Planets in Fiction
- New Washington and Franklin (Jerry Pournelle's The Prince)
- Opal and Quake (Charles Sheffield's Summertide)
- Iscandar and Gamilus (Space Battleship Yamato)
- Roche and Eau (Robert L. Forward's Rocheworld)
- Urras and Anarres (Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed)
- Genji and Chujo (Murasaki)
- Caprica and Gemenon (Caprica & Battlestar Galactica)
- Fire and Water (Lexx)
- Anatoray and Disith, collectively called "Prester" (Last Exile)
- Clom and Raxacoricofallapatorius (Doctor Who)
- Kiffu and Kiffex, Talus and Tralus (Star Wars Expanded Universe)
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