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TIL 40 years before James Cameron's "Avatar" was released, the "Noon Universe" Russian sci-fi novels were published, set on a forest planet called Pandora in the 22nd century, inhabited by humanoids called Nave (compared to the "Na'vi" in Avatar).

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