Dyson tree

Dyson trees in science fiction

• One of the first adoptions of the trope is Rachel Pollack's Tree House.
• The concept is discussed in Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's 1985 non-fiction book Comet, and several paintings of Dyson trees around Saturn and in interstellar space are provided in the book by Jon Lomberg.
• In Michael Swanwick's 1987 transhumanist novel Vacuum Flowers, "dysonsworlders" have established tree settlements in the Oort Cloud.
• Under the name of "Space Poplars", Dyson trees are described in Donald Moffitt's two science fiction novels, The Genesis Quest and Second Genesis. Here they are used as both habitats and spacecraft, propelled by reflective outer leaves used as organic solar sails.
• Dan Simmons, in Endymion and the Rise of Endymion – both part of his Hyperion Cantos – refers to Dyson trees, and in the latter novel to a huge tree system that surrounds an entire star.
• In Stephen Baxter's , Baxter's protagonist Reid Malenfant at one point finds himself inside a Dyson tree.
• In the Orion's Arm shared universe, Dyson trees and Dyson tree "forests" are called orwoods; these have been established in a number of star systems throughout terragen space. The word "Orwood" in this context was originally coined by Anders Sandberg.
• The Transhuman Space roleplaying game includes the beginning of a Dyson tree endeavour on Yggdrasil Station
• In the Tenchi Muyo OVA series, the Jurai utilize trees that can live in space as ships, and in the temple of the goddess-like character Tokimi, a giant tree whose roots encompass a planet can be seen.
• In The Dirty Pair series, the episode "Run From the Future" is set on the Nimkasi habitat, an outlaw habitat that is a Dyson tree.
• The video game Eufloria is based on the Dyson tree concept.