Interstellar travel in fiction
Interstellar travel is a common feature of fiction such as science fiction and fantasy.[1][2]
Slower Than Light Travel
- Between the Strokes of Night: altered metabolism
- Murasaki: antimatter drives
- A Deepness in the Sky, Footfall, Protector, Tau Zero: Bussard ramjet
- The Forever War: collapsars
- Revelation Space: Conjoiner drive
- Andymon, The Songs of Distant Earth: Embryo space colonization
- Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry: Time dilation
- Ender's Game series: Time Dilation
- The Worthing series: Time Dilation, cryogenic freezing and memory transfer
- The Big Everything: Stellarator, Time Dilation
Faster than Light Travel
- Ansible
- Animorphs (Zero Space)
- Battlestar (reimagining)
- FTL drive (Battlestar Galactica)
- Kearny-Fuchida jump drive (BattleTech)
- Farscape: wormhole
- FTL engine (Eureka)
- FTL:2448 by Tri Tac Games
- Hyperdrive
- Hyperspace
- Inertialess drive
- Infinite Improbability Drive
- Interstellar: wormhole
- Interstellar teleporter
- Jump drive
- Jumpgate
- Mass Effect Relay
- Macross Space Fold
- Stargate (device)
- The Skylark of Space: warp drive
- Starburst (Farscape)
- Slipstream (science fiction)
- Skip drive
- TARDIS (Doctor Who)
- Interdimensional Drive (Earth Final Conflict)
- Ultrawave
- Warp drive
Series
- Kearny-Fuchida Drive (BattleTech/MechWarrior)
- Warp drive (Star Trek)
- Slipstream (Star Trek)
- Subspace (Star Trek)
- Stargate
- Warp points (Space Empires)
- Commonwealth Saga features interstellar travel by humans and aliens, at speeds both faster and slower than light
Video games
Television
See also
References
- ↑ Jan Johnson-Smith, "Space Travel", American science fiction TV
- ↑ "Per ardua ad astra: Authorial Choice and the Narrative of Interstellar Travel", Voyages and visions
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