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Interstellar travel in fiction

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Interstellar travel is a common feature of fiction such as science fiction and fantasy.

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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

  • Slipstream (Halo)
  • Spore

    • Television

  • Slipstream (Doctor Who)
  • Slipstream (Andromeda)

    • References

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