In Fiction
- In the Star Wars franchise of Knights of the Old Republic, the Star Forge is capable of star lifting.
- In Lexx, the Mantrid Drones eventually became capable of star lifting simply by using their combined gravity to draw material away.
- The novel Star Trek: Voyager – The Murdered Sun featured a reptilian race using the material from a star to sustain the opening of a wormhole. However, the novel depicted the process as shortening the star's lifespan precipitously rather than extending it.
- In The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, the alien species the Kiint created an arc of custom made planets around their sun from mass extracted from their star.
- In The Time Ships by Steven Baxter, a Dyson sphere is constructed by material harvested from the sun through star-lifting.
- In the web-based collaborative fiction site "Orion's Arm" the star Polaris is subject to starlifting (with image).
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“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions.”
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