Large Magellanic Cloud
- In the children's book and animated series Alien Characters, aliens from the Large Magellanic Cloud come together aboard The Celestial Breeze Space Ship and its companion planet Elizabeth with a mission to create a relationship with the aliens of the Milky Way Galaxy. The first 3 series are set within The Large Magellanic Cloud with much of the fourth series spent travelling across the void to the Milky Way Galaxy. Further series refer to regularly flash jumping between the galaxies.
- In the 1988 film My Stepmother Is an Alien, the Clouds of Megallan is a galaxy 92 light years from Earth, and the home planet of the alien Celeste Martin
- In Olaf Stapledon's 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker, there is a group of aliens that live in the Large Magellanic Cloud called the Symbiotics, a super-intelligent symbiotic race composed of telepathically linked arachnoid beings and whale-like ichthyoid beings. The "Symbiotics" are the most advanced intelligent life in the Milky Way Galaxy and its satellite galaxies. The reason is because they combine the manipulative tool-using intelligence of the arachnoids with the contemplative meditative and mathematical intelligence of the ichthyoids. The "Symbiotics" travel in starships equipped with tanks of water for the ichthyoids and piloted by the arachnoids. They conduct vast terraforming projects, terraforming planets in numerous different planetary systems. They also construct large artificial planetoids, hollow spheres filled with water inhabited on the inside by the icthyoids and on the surface by the arachnoids. They have the most advanced and powerful telepathic powers of any race in our galaxy and its satellites and are thus able to stop the War of Galactic Empires within the Milky Way Galaxy by telepathically attacking the military forces of the various Galactic Empires and causing them to have doubts about imperialism. This causes the various Imperial military forces to become totally disorganized. The Galaxy is led into a new era of galactic peace supervised by the democratic and communistic Galactic Community of Worlds, which emerges after the fall of the Galactic Empires.
- The Large Magellanic Cloud is the destination of the spacecraft Yamato in the first season of the 1970s anime series Space Battleship Yamato (known as Space Cruiser Yamato or Star Blazers to Western audiences). The LMC is the host galaxy for the destination, Iscandal and the home planet of the invasive forces to Earth, Gamilas. The Yamato must use an untested faster-than-light drive to make the 296,000 light year round trip in one year.
- In Scientology, these are said to be literal clouds. They are involved in the fictional story of Helatrobus.
- In Marvel Comics, the Magellanic Cloud is home to the Kree empire. Whether this territory occupies the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud or both is not clear.
- In Alan Dean Foster's novel Glory Lane, the inimical Sikan race is reported to have come from the Magellanic Clouds.
- In Arthur C Clarke's novel Rendezvous with Rama, the giant spaceship Rama is at the end directed towards the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its journey through the solar system was apparently just to use the Sun to refuel and as a gravitational slingshot.
- In A. E. van Vogt's Mission to the Stars an Earth's Spaceship, the Star Cluster, is searching for the long lost human colonies of the Fifty Suns.
- In The Forever War, a 1974 science fiction novel by Joe Haldeman, a significant battle takes place on a 'collapsar' portal planet in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- In James Blish's series Cities in Flight, hero John Amalfi and the New Earth planet escape to the Greater Magellenic Cloud to avoid unjust prosecution for an atrocity.
- In the Robert Silverberg novel, Collision Course, a wayward space ship trying to fly back to Earth gets lost in "null-space" and ends up emerging into normal space within the Large Magellanic Cloud; the captain suggests they find a permanent home there as their chances of getting home are extremely remote and they are fortunate to have dropped into normal space within a galaxy. Ultimately, they are returned to the Milky Way by sympathetic, superior aliens. The Milky Way galaxy is easily visible, evoking a feeling of loneliness and separation when the crew realize they're looking at their home galaxy.
- In the game Infinite Space, the main character flees to the Large Magellanic Cloud after the civilizations of the Small Magellanic Cloud are taken over by an invading empire. Most of the second half of the game is spent in this galaxy.
- In the Deadlands: Lost Colony roleplaying game, the Faraway system is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- In Halo (series) The parasitic Flood was said to have come from Large Magellanic Cloud on ancient cargo ships
- The Doctor Who story The Ribos Operation is described as being set "three light centuries" from "the Magellanic cloud".
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