Messier 13 - Literary References

Literary References

  • The science fiction novellas "Sucker Bait" by Isaac Asimov and "Question and Answer" by Poul Anderson take place on Troas, a world within M13.
  • In the science fiction series Perry Rhodan, M13 is the location of Arkon, the home world of the race of Arkonides.
  • In author Dan Simmon's Hyperion Cantos the Hercules cluster is where Earth was secretly moved to after it was supposedly destroyed.
  • In The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut writes "Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules -- and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress."
  • Deliberately engineering a star in Messier 13 to go nova was part of the Cybermen’s complicated plot in the 1968 Doctor Who story The Wheel in Space.
  • In Bill Amend's popular comic strip FoxTrot, Jason Fox mentions observing the M13 Globular Cluster

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