u/bupgames

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The triple-sun Alpha Centauri system is mentioned a lot in scifi, given it's our closest neighbor. The idea of setting foot on a world that we might actually be able to reach in a human lifetime without warp drive is tantalizing. (Project StarShot aims to get there in only 20 years.)

The discoveries of potential earth-sized worlds in the habitable zone like Proxima B make a lot of scifi representations of hospitable planets in this system all the more believable.

I'm looking for sci-fi recommendations that explore worlds of the Alpha Centauri system.

There's the obvious:

Trisolaris (Three Body Problem)

Polyphemus / Pandora (Avatar)

And the slightly more obscure:

Centauri Prime (Babylon 5)

Alpha Centauri (Star Trek)

Tiber (Encounter with Tiber)

Chiron (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri)

Jemison (Starfield)

Any favorites (books, movies, games, anime, comics/manga, etc.)?

u/bupgames — 7 days ago