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As a Sun-like star relatively close to the Solar System, Epsilon Eridani regularly appears in science fiction:
[edit] Literature
- In Kathy Tyers' novel Shivering World, Goddard orbits Epsilon Eridani.
- In Gordon Dickson's Childe Cycle (1959-1988) the Friendly worlds of Harmony and Association orbit Epsilon Eridani.
- In the robot novels of Isaac Asimov, it is the sun of the first world of the second wave of settlers: Comporellon (Foundation's Edge, 1982) or Baleyworld (Robots and Empire, 1985).
- In Greg Bear's Eon (1985), Epsilon Eridani is the original destination of the Thistledown.
- In the Viagens Interplanetarias stories of L. Sprague de Camp its system contains the inhabited planets of Thor and Kukulkan, the later being the setting of his novels The Stones of Nomuru (1988) and The Venom Trees of Sunga (1992).
- In the Honor Harrington book series (1993-) by David Weber, Epsilon Eridani is one of the Solarian League worlds, and the source of the Eridani Edict, which sprang from the Epsilon Eridani Massacre where 7 billion people were killed by orbital bombardment.
- In the Worldwar books (1994-1996) by Harry Turtledove, Epsilon Eridani is one of the subject star systems (Rabotev) of The Race.
- In the Revelation Space universe (2000-), encompassing five novels, two novellas, and eight short stories by author Alastair Reynolds, the Epsilon Eridani system includes a planet called Yellowstone that is the most important planet in the series and is home to the most advanced human civilization for about three hundred years. The Yellowstone society is centered in the Glitter Band system of habitats in orbit around Yellowstone and in Chasm City, located on the planet's surface in a domed crater. The system also includes a moon around Yellowstone called Marco's Eye, and a gas giant planet called Tangerine Dream.
[edit] Television
- In the Battletech universe Epsilon Eridani is one of the worlds closest to Terra. It was originally a member-world of the Terran Hegemony. The planet passed into Capellan control after the collapse of the Star League. It was conquered by the Federated Suns during the 4th Succession War, and remained under the control of the Federated Suns, later the Federated Commonwealth, until 3057, when the world became independent in the aftermath of the conflict between the Federated Commonwealth and an alliance between the Capellan Confederation and the Free Worlds League.
- In the video game series Halo, the planet Reach is in this system. Reach is a UNSC military stronghold, a shipyard, and the site of the SPARTAN-II super-soldier project which trained John-117 (Master Chief). The planet was bombarded by Covenant forces from orbit and made uninhabitable on August 30, 2552.[citation needed]
- In the game Face of Mankind there's a space colony on one of the ice planets orbiting Epsilon Eridani.
- In the Alternate Reality Game The Beast, Epsilon Eridani is mentioned as the destination of rogue space-faring AIs, and therefore the birthplace of the advanced androids seen at the end of the movie A.I., which the game was promoting.
- In the Frontier-series of games (including Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters), Epsilon Eridani is a system dedicated to luxury-class and adult tourism (primarily directed towards the terraformed planet known as New California). The system does not come under Federal law, despite being deep in the core of the Federation. As a result, narcotics and slavery are quite legal here and does brisk business as a major import. Like most other systems, military-grade weaponry and nerve gas are illegal here.
- In the GDW's 2300 AD, Dukou is the first planet of Epsilon Eridani, an habitable but glacial world, and it houses the Manchurian semi-penal colony of Xixiang. Epsilon Eridani is the main access to the Latin systems.
- In Battlelords of the Twenty-Third Century, Epsilon Eridani is the home star system for an alien race known as Eridani. Their homeworld, Eridine, is a cold methane world.
