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Where can I find examples of other people’s star maps? Has anyone charted the stars of my favourite interstellar future?
3-D Starmaps: the whole site is about this kind of thing, but in particular check out the “Actual Maps” page at http://www.projectrho.com/smap12.html. It includes links to maps based on the works of Frank Herbert and Alastair Reynolds, plus Star Trek, Traveller, and others.
Proximity Zero, by Terry Kepner: this was a book published in 1995 that mapped every known star within a 40 light year radius of Sol. It sliced up the sphere into 13 slices, with the top slice at galactic north. The result was 13 maps, each 6 or 7 light years “thick”. The information in the book is somewhat outdated by now -- for one thing, we’ve discovered a lot of nearby stars since 1995 -- but my copy is still a treasured possession. I have the second edition; I don’t believe a third has ever been published.
Michael McCollum’s website, Sci-Fi Arizona, publishes The Astrogator’s Handbook, another set of maps based on a similar concept. You can order a copy at http://www.scifi-az.com/nonfiction1.htm.
Some of the Chanur novels by C.J. Cherryh have a map of the area occupied by the several alien races that make up the “Compact”. I don’t know if they’re real stars or not, but the map is a good example of a star map in two dimensions.
Rick Sternbach’s cover to Tales of Known Space by Larry Niven shows where some of the Known Space planets’ primaries are in relation to each other, with some other nearby stars thrown in for good measure. You can find an online scan at http://dvindzin.thruhere.net:4350/ebook%20master%20library/1400scificlassic/eBooks/Niven,%20Larry%20-%20Tales%20of%20Known%20Space.jpg. Note that there is a star labelled “HR 5832”, which I think must be a misprint for “HR 8832”. Also, “L5 1665” is probably supposed to be “L5 1668”, which is better known as Luyten’s Star.
3-D Starmaps: the whole site is about this kind of thing, but in particular check out the “Actual Maps” page at http://www.projectrho.com/smap12.html. It includes links to maps based on the works of Frank Herbert and Alastair Reynolds, plus Star Trek, Traveller, and others.
Proximity Zero, by Terry Kepner: this was a book published in 1995 that mapped every known star within a 40 light year radius of Sol. It sliced up the sphere into 13 slices, with the top slice at galactic north. The result was 13 maps, each 6 or 7 light years “thick”. The information in the book is somewhat outdated by now -- for one thing, we’ve discovered a lot of nearby stars since 1995 -- but my copy is still a treasured possession. I have the second edition; I don’t believe a third has ever been published.
Michael McCollum’s website, Sci-Fi Arizona, publishes The Astrogator’s Handbook, another set of maps based on a similar concept. You can order a copy at http://www.scifi-az.com/nonfiction1.htm.
Some of the Chanur novels by C.J. Cherryh have a map of the area occupied by the several alien races that make up the “Compact”. I don’t know if they’re real stars or not, but the map is a good example of a star map in two dimensions.
Rick Sternbach’s cover to Tales of Known Space by Larry Niven shows where some of the Known Space planets’ primaries are in relation to each other, with some other nearby stars thrown in for good measure. You can find an online scan at http://dvindzin.thruhere.net:4350/ebook%20master%20library/1400scificlassic/eBooks/Niven,%20Larry%20-%20Tales%20of%20Known%20Space.jpg. Note that there is a star labelled “HR 5832”, which I think must be a misprint for “HR 8832”. Also, “L5 1665” is probably supposed to be “L5 1668”, which is better known as Luyten’s Star.
