Interstellar travel in fiction

Interstellar travel is a common feature of fiction such as science fiction and fantasy.^[1][2]

Slower than light travel

• Between the Strokes of Night: altered metabolism
• Murasaki: antimatter drives
• A Deepness in the Sky, Footfall, Protector, Tau Zero: Bussard ramjet
• The Forever War: collapsars
• Revelation Space: Conjoiner drive
• Andymon, The Songs of Distant Earth: Embryo space colonization
• Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry: Time dilation
• Ender's Game series: Time dilation
• The Worthing series: Time dilation, cryogenic freezing and memory transfer
• The Big Everything: Stellarator, time dilation

Faster than light travel

• Ansible
• Animorphs (Zero Space)
• Battlestar (reimagining)
• FTL drive (Battlestar Galactica)
• Kearny-Fuchida jump drive (BattleTech)
• Farscape: wormhole
• FTL engine (Eureka)
• FTL:2448 by Tri Tac Games
• Hyperdrive
• Hyperspace
• Inertialess drive
• Infinite Improbability Drive
• Interstellar: wormhole
• Interstellar teleporter
• Jump drive
• Jumpgate
• Mass Effect Relay
• Macross Space Fold
• Stargate (device)
• The Skylark of Space: warp drive
• Starburst (Farscape)
• Slipstream (science fiction)
• Skip drive
• TARDIS (Doctor Who)
• Interdimensional Drive (Earth Final Conflict)
• Ultrawave
• Warp drive

Series

• Kearny-Fuchida Drive (BattleTech/MechWarrior)
• Subspace (Star Trek)
• Slipstream (Star Trek)
• Subspace (Star Trek)
• Stargate
• Warp points (Space Empires)
• Commonwealth Saga features interstellar travel by humans and aliens, at speeds both faster and slower than light

Video games

• Slipstream (Halo)
• Spore

Television

• Slipstream (Doctor Who)
• Slipstream (Andromeda)

See also

• Faster-than-light
• Hyperspace
• Jump drive
• Starship
• Wormhole

References