From: jdnicoll@panix.com   
      
   In article <10klvvl$k234$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Tony Nance   wrote:   
   >On 1/19/26 1:29 PM, James Nicoll wrote:   
   >> In article <10klpr8$hcab$2@dont-email.me>,   
   >> Tony Nance   wrote:   
   >>> On 1/19/26 12:05 PM, James Nicoll wrote:   
   >>>> In article <10kll0a$f468$1@dont-email.me>,   
   >>>> Tony Nance   wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Have there been SF works that had life (inhabited planets/moons) in   
   >>>>> white dwarf systems? I'm thinking "surely there have been - probably   
   >>>>> several", but I can't think of any.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Systems that _only_ have white dwarfs or systems that have in addition   
   >>>> to main sequence stars one or more white dwarfs?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> I was thinking the former, but would also be happy with the latter.   
   >>> - Tony   
   >>>   
   >> Any novel featuring either Sirius or Procyon. For example, Bova's   
   >> 1972 As On a Darkling Plain, where Sirius B being a white dwarf   
   >> (or how it became one) is relevent to the plot.   
   >>   
   >Ah, yes - thanks. Not that I've read the Bova, but the two stars you   
   >mention do show up in many SF works.   
   >   
   >So now I guess I'm thinking more about the former.   
   >Tony   
   >   
   Being in the same system as a white dwarf probably means any formerly   
   habitable planet had its atmosphere blow-torched off. Not an issue   
   for either Sirius or Procyon, as the stellar orbits preclude habitable   
   planets.   
      
   Now, 40 Eridani is an interesing case where a sunlike star is orbited at   
   a fair distance by a red dwarf and a white dwarf. It may be that any   
   Earthlike world around A was only badly damaged. Fodder for an Andre   
   Norton-style death world.   
      
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