Far From Any Star: 5 Stories About Rogue Worlds
Artist's conception of a Jupiter-like rogue planet. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) It’s been weeks since you last socialized (in the flesh) with anyone outside your household…or with anyone, if you live alone. Loneliness is tough. But things could be worse: you could be a rogue world, 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… The deep-space object around which the eponymous spac...
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