This is a listing of the use of the Dyson Sphere concept in popular fiction. For a discussion of the general concept and its history, see The Main Article .
In Science Fiction some additional fictional technologies are described to enhance convenience and possibilities. One of them is the use of " Gravity Generator s" to bind an atmosphere onto the surface of the sphere, inside or outside.
Most fiction depict the ''Dyson shell'' variant. Unless otherwise noted, that is the type of Dyson Sphere in the instances below.
- '', by Olaf Stapledon . The novel which inspired Freeman Dyson to propose the concept of the Dyson Sphere .
- The '' Star Trek '' novel ''The Starless World'' by Gordon Eklund .
- The '''' novel ''Dyson Sphere'' by George Zebrowski , Charles R. Pellegrino . A follow-up to "Relics".
- The novels ''Orbitsville'', ''Orbitsville Departure'', and ''Orbitsville Judgement'' by Bob Shaw .
- The novel ''Spinneret'' by Timothy Zahn (Dyson net).
- The novel '' The World Is Round '' by Tony Rothman .
- Two novels by Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson - These are notable in that the sphere in these novels is inhabited on the , producing an unusual environment with both very low gravity and an atmosphere hundreds of miles deep.
- ---''Farthest Star'' ( 1975 )
- ---''Wall Around a Star'' ( 1983 )
- The novel '' Pandora's Star '' by Peter F. Hamilton .
- The novel ''Across a Billion Years'' by Robert Silverberg .
- The novel '' The Time Ships '' by Stephen Baxter .
- The novel '' The Rise Of Endymion '' by Dan Simmons , featuring a partly completed sphere, being grown using advanced biotechnology.
- The short story ''Star Light, Star Bright'' by Robert J. Sawyer .
- The novel '' Flashforward '' by Robert J. Sawyer .
- The '' Doctor Who '' '' New Adventures '' novel ''The Also People'' by Ben Aaronovitch .
- The novel '' Consider Phlebas '' by Iain M Banks ; several Spheres mentioned only in passing as casualties of the Idiran-Culture War .
- The novel '' Absolution Gap '' by Alastair Reynolds .
- The novel '' Century Rain '' by Alastair Reynolds .
- The novel '' Russian Spring '' by Norman Spinrad . (Brief mention in a news blurb)
- The "Cageworld" novels ''Search for the Sun!'', ''The Lost Worlds of Cronus'', ''The Tyrant of Hades'', and ''Star-Search'' by Colin Kapp . Features concentric nested Dyson shells built from collected interstellar matter, also inhabited on their surfaces.
- The novel ''Illegal Aliens'' by Nick Pollotta and Phil Foglio mentions two Dyson shells. The first, simply called "Big", is the headquarters of a galactic federation. The second is unnamed and apparently consists of nothing but nested Dyson shells built by an insane race to cope with their sun getting smaller.
- The novel '' The Singers Of Time '' by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson visits a parallel universe totally covered in Dyson shells, where only the farthest quasars are visible (already covered, but the light from them is still travelling). They were constructed by a formerly biological race that slowly converted their bodies to cyborgs and then full robots, the only logical evolution being the creation of a Type V or VI civilization.
- The novel '' Heaven's Reach '' by David Brin explains a more advanced form of the Dyson sphere known as a Criswell Structure. This type of sphere utilizes fractal geometry to further maximize the light capturing inner surface as well as increase natural stability. Billions of these have been placed around slow burning red stars for extended periods of habitation by ancient lifeforms awaiting transcendence to a higher form of life.
- The lengthy series of "WebErotica" by Elf Mathieu Sternberg about many races of Anthromophs (Centaurs, etc.) that inhabit a Dyson Sphere created by a human at the beginning of time can be found at http://www.drizzle.com/~elf/journals/index.html
- The short story ''Hold Until Relieved'', by William H. Keith, Jr. Part of Keith Laumer 's Bolo universe. Galactic core surrounded by Dyson shell.
- The novel "Federation World", by James White , partially set in a terraced Dyson sphere, which rotates to provide internal centrifugal force as a substitute for gravity. Since the terraces have different radii of rotation, alien species native to multiple gravity levels can be accomodated.
- The sci-fi Webcomic '' Schlock Mercenary '' by Howard Tayler features an alien race known as the Gatekeepers, who live in habitats hanging from the interior surfaces of Dyson Bubbles they call ''Buuthandi'' (an abbreviation of the Gatekeeper phrase "Buut go buut-buut nnaa-nnaa cho handi", which translates to "This was expensive to build", or more literally as as "Expensive and expensive-expensive we built").[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020309.html They use these Dyson bubbles to collect power with which to operate a galaxy-wide network of transportation wormholes.
- The comic '' BLAME! '' by Tsutomu Nihei. In the artbook, BLAME! And So On it is revealed by the artist that the "city" the characters keep referring to and are currently wandering in is actually a Dyson Sphere extending to the orbit of Jupiter.
- In the Marvel comic series '' New Mutants '' (original series) the rock star Lila Cheney , a mutant with the power to teleport across interstellar distances, had a home on an abandoned Dyson Sphere.
- The collaborative worldbuilding website '' Orion's Arm '' describes several fictional planetary systems which incorporate Dyson Swarms, which orbit the local star and collect energy to use for life support, industry and computation. {Link without Title}
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