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
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