From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 1/19/26 13:33, Tony Nance wrote:   
   > On 1/19/26 4:20 PM, James Nicoll wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Re: "habitable": That's part of what inspired the question. With all the   
   > different types of life in SF, are there settings where someone put life   
   > in a white dwarf system? For example, we have seen authors write about   
   > native silicon-based life, native life in the atmospheres of gas giants,   
   > etc.   
   >   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Agreed.   
   > Tony   
      
   	Great stories about life on the surface of neutron stars.   
   very two dimensional but making the best of a high gravitation   
   and communicating with the homo sapiens off in the distance.   
      
   	But just because the atmosphere a planet had is blown away   
   does not mean that it cannot be replaced and then we have domed   
   cities as well in SF.   
      
   	bliss   
   	   
   	   
      
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