From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
   >   
   > Tony   
      
      
   In the Larry Niven story, "One Face" a hyperjump to sol goes badly wrong   
   and the ship jumps to the far future, in  sun's white dwarf stage, with   
   earth a frozen and tidally locked planet.   
      
   Somehow they concoct a plan to start the earth spinning again, and plan   
   to farm it when this is done.   
      
   In Karl Schroeder's "Permanence" people using STL largely settle on   
   worlds of brown dwarfs, the assumption in this book being that such   
   dwarfs are far more common than luminous stars, hence shorter distances   
   and travel times between them. These worlds do tend to be a tad dark and   
   chilly, though.   
      
   Jack Vance has one of his villains living on a "dead" star.  How he   
   handwaves away the gravity I do not recall.   
      
   Clarke commented somewhere on the story possibilities of white dwarfs,   
   which will radiate strongly for trillions of years, but I don't recall   
   his ever using that in his own work.   
      
   William Hyde   
      
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