In Fiction
In Olaf Stapledon's 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker, one of the many alien civilizations in our galaxy he describes is one in the terminator zone of a tidally locked planet of a red dwarf system. This planet is inhabited by intelligent plants that look like carrots with arms, legs, and a head that "sleep" part of the time by inserting themselves in soil on plots of land and absorbing sunlight by photosynthesis, and that are awake part of the time, emerging from their plots of soil as locomoting beings who participate in all the complex activities of a modern industrial civilization. Stapledon also describes how life evolved on this planet.
In Larry Niven's "Draco Tavern" stories, the highly advanced Chirpsithra aliens evolved on a tide-locked Oxygen world around a Red Dwarf. However, no detail is given beyond that it was about 1 terrestrial mass, a little colder, and used Red Dwarf sunlight.
Superman's home, Krypton, was in orbit around a Red Dwarf.
Read more about this topic: Habitability Of Red Dwarf Systems
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send cheques to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)