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

• Babylon 5: jump drive and Hyperspace
• Battlestar Galactica: jump drive
• The Skylark of Space: warp drive
• Interstellar: wormhole
• Farscape: wormhole

Series

• Kearny-Fuchida Drive (BattleTech/MechWarrior)
• Warp drive (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
• Wormholes

References

1. ↑ Jan Johnson-Smith, "Space Travel", American science fiction TV 
2. ↑ "Per ardua ad astra: Authorial Choice and the Narrative of Interstellar Travel", Voyages and visions