Far From Any Star: Five Stories About Rogue Worlds

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https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/RoguePlanet.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px" /> </figure> <div class="post-hero-caption post-hero-caption-horizontal [&_a]:link">Artist's conception of a Jupiter-like rogue planet. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)</div> </div> </div> </div> </post-hero> </div> <div class="container container-desktop"> <div class="article-contents block tablet:flex gap-[83px] laptop:gap-[50px] desktop:gap-[118px] mx-auto mb-10 tablet:mb-[52px] laptop:mb-[66px] desktop:mb-20"> <div class="tablet:flex-1 article-main-content basis-0"> <article-content class="block prose js-article-content prose--article"> <p>It’s been weeks since you last socialized (in the flesh) with anyone outside your household…or with <em>anyone</em>, if you live alone. Loneliness is tough. But things could be worse: you could be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet">rogue world</a>, ejected from your home system billions of years ago. You could be a pitiful world formed far from any star. Such worlds are commonplace in our galaxy. They are not quite so common in science fiction. Still, a few of them feature in books that you may have read…</p> <p><span id="more-578992"></span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>Star Well </em>by Alexei Panshin (1968)</strong></p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-579152" src="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Starwell.jpg" alt="" width="362" height="600" /></p> <p>The deep-space object around which the eponymous space hotel Star Well was constructed is well below <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2010/04/12/27697/potato-radius-to-define-dwarf-planets/">the potato limit</a>. The object is conveniently located in a vast gulf otherwise bereft of significant bodies—a handy place in which to build an oasis in space. A place where one might find hospitality and … <em>other services</em>. For charming remittance man Anthony Villiers, it is a convenient place to await funds, while artfully avoiding questions like “when are you leaving?” and “Can you actually pay your mounting bills?” His reluctance to admit insolvency raises grave suspicions in his hotelier hosts Godwin and Shirabi. What could possibly inspire Villiers to linger in a galactic backwater? Could it be that Villiers is a covert agent who suspects just what the…<em>other services</em> the criminal pair offer might be? Just to be on the safe side, it’s best to kill the young man. But Villiers proves inconsiderately hard to kill.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>Dying of the Light</em> by George R.R. Martin (1977)</strong></p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-579135 aligncenter" src="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/DyingLight-GRRM.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="453" /></p> <p>The rogue world Worlorn is transiting the neighborhood of the supergiant star Fat Satan. 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Lacking the sunlight that powers ordinary ecosystems, the world should, by rights, be frozen and lifeless. What he finds instead is a sunless world that hosts a rich assortment of lifeforms, including at least one species as smart as humans. Somewhere there must be a source of energy fueling life, but what could it possibly be? Assisted by a native, Laird will try to find out.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>“A Pail of Air,” by Fritz Leiber (1951)</strong></p> <p>Perhaps my favourite rogue world story: Thanks to a chance encounter with a passing dark star, Earth itself has become a rogue planet. Most people died when Earth was torn away from the Sun. The few who survived soon froze to death. The lone exceptions: one young boy, his Pa, his Ma, and his Sis, huddled in the makeshift nest Pa scrabbled together before the Big Jerk. They alone survived Earth’s demise. So why does the young boy think he saw an unfamiliar human face?</p> <p>It’s clear that under the conditions as stated, it’s just a matter of time before poor judgment or bad luck extinguishes the Nest. Why bother with the daily struggle to survive when a dismal outcome is assured? The narrative answers that:</p> <blockquote> <p>“Life’s always been a business of working hard and fighting the cold,” Pa was saying. “The earth’s always been a lonely place, millions of miles from the next world. And no matter how long the human race might have lived, the end would have come some night. Those things don’t matter. What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the petals of flowers—you’ve seen pictures of those, but I can’t describe how they feel—or the fire’s glow. It makes everything else worthwhile. And that’s as true for the last man as the first.”</p> <p>[…] “So right then and there,” Pa went on, […] “I told myself that I was going on as if we had all eternity ahead of us. I’d have children and teach them all I could. I’d get them to read books. I’d plan for the future, try to enlarge and seal the Nest. I’d do what I could to keep everything beautiful and growing. I’d keep alive my feeling of wonder even at the cold and the dark and the distant stars.”</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p>The works I’ve discussed so far are a subset of rogue world stories: stories about naturally occurring rogue worlds. There are other sorts of rogue world. But that’s another essay….</p> <p class="squib"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/James_D._Nicoll_%282nd_nomination%29"><strong>In the words of Wikipedia editor TexasAndroid</strong></a>, prolific book reviewer and perennial <a href="http://dd-b.net/NicollEvents/"><strong>Darwin Award nominee</strong></a> James Davis Nicoll is of “questionable notability.” His work has appeared in Publishers Weekly and Romantic Times as well as on his own websites, <a href="http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/"><strong>James Nicoll Reviews</strong></a> and <a href="http://youngpeoplereadoldsff.com/"><strong>Young People Read Old SFF</strong></a> (where he is assisted by editor <a href="http://klofstrom.com/"><strong>Karen Lofstrom</strong></a> and web person Adrienne L. Travis). 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/> </defs> </svg> <div class=""> <h3 class="mb-[6px] text-h4">James Davis Nicoll</h3> <p class="text-xs uppercase about-author-role">Author</p> </div> </div> <div class="js-about-author-item-description mt-3 pr-3 tablet:pr-0 desktop:mt-2 text-p2 block [&_p+p]:mt-[10px]">In the words <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/tt9gzo/orange_covid_hat_man/" target="_blank"><u>of fanfiction author Musty181</u></a>, current CSFFA Hall of Fame nominee, five-time Hugo finalist, prolific book reviewer, and perennial <a href="https://dd-b.net/NicollEvents/" target="_blank"><u>Darwin Award nominee</u></a> James Davis Nicoll “looks like a default mii with glasses.” His work has appeared in Interzone, Publishers Weekly and Romantic Times as well as on his own websites, <a href="https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/" target="_blank"><u>James Nicoll Reviews</u></a> (where he is assisted by editor Karen Lofstrom and web person Adrienne L. Travis) and the 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Aurora Award finalist <a href="http://youngpeoplereadoldsff.com/" target="_blank"><u>Young People Read Old SFF</u></a> (where he is assisted by web person Adrienne L. Travis). 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