Quote:
Originally Posted by Hans Rancke-Madsen
You can blame that one on Larry Niven, and as far as I am concerned, if it's good enough for Larry Niven, it's good enough for me.
Hans
|
That sounds like a conflation of two different Niven planets and maybe a Hal Clemnts one..
Jinx was a high gravity world orbiting a gas giant with an egg-like shape. The poles were actually in vacuum or near vacuum. There may have been a habitable zone between the poles and the equator.
Plateau had a massive high altitude plateau where the air was breathable while it was unbreathable at lower altitudes.
Clements had a world that spun so fast that gravity was 3 Gs at the equator and 600 at the poles. I don't think he played with the atmosphere much though.