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Given its similarity to the Sun, Tau Ceti had been a popular setting or reference in science fiction works.

Isaac Asimov set the planet "Aurora" and its two asteroidal satellites around Tau Ceti in the Robot and Foundation novels. In Robert A. Heinlein's novel Time for the Stars, the flagship Elsie encounters a few planets and an Earth-type planet that they name "Constance." In Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, the action takes place in a fictional double planet system orbiting Tau Ceti. The two planets are called "Anarres" and "Urras."

Tau Ceti has figured more than once in the popular Star Trek television serials. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Journey's End," the alien known as The Traveler is said to come from Tau Ceti. In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode, "In a Mirror, Darkly" a reference is made to a battle at Tau Ceti.

Film and television

• In the film version of Barbarella, the decadent city of Sogo is on a planet in the Tau Ceti system.
• In The Powers of Matthew Starr, the planet Quadris is identified as being a planet of Tau Ceti.
• In Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, the warlike Jaridian species is referred to as having its main stronghold at Tau Ceti.
• In the television series Doctor Who, Tau Ceti is mentioned at least twice. In The Stones of Blood and Terror of the Zygons, the planets Ogros and Zygor are said to orbit Tau Ceti.
• In Ice Planet, Jelaca Duvan says she has done research on the polar regions of Tau Ceti.

Comics and anime

• In Alan Moore's Skizz, Interpreter Zhcchz from Tau Ceti crash-lands outside Birmingham.
• In Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon, Master Pharaoh 90, the leader of the enemy group "Death Busters," comes from Tau Ceti.
• In Yukinobu Hoshino's 2001 Nights, Night 4, "Posterity" depicts an embryo space colonization starship on its voyage to planet Ozma in the Tau Ceti system.

Games

• The Tau Ceti system is a system in the Wing Commander universe.
• In the Marathon game trilogy, Tau Ceti IV is the location of a human colony, about which the colony ship U.E.S.C. Marathon orbits.
• In the computer game System Shock 2, the starship Von Braun traveled on its maiden voyage to Tau Ceti V. It was also the source of the invasion on the ship by the AI SHODAN and the SHODAN-created life forms, the Annelids, which evolved into The Many.
• Pete Cooke's 1985 ZX Spectrum computer game Tau Ceti, published by CRL, was set on an airless planet orbiting the star. [1]
• In David Braben's Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, Tau Ceti is orbited by the habitable, Earthlike (and densely populated) world known as Taylor Colony. The system is a member of the Federation. It was first permanent human colony outside Solar system, and first non-Earth planet with life discovered.
• In Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire, the vaguely referenced "Tau Ceti flowering" had accidentally destroyed all sentient life in the Tau Ceti system. This destruction is the primary argument used by the alien Progenitor Manifold Caretakers against causing further flowerings in other systems.
• In all three of the Escape Velocity games, Tau Ceti is the primary of a major star system.
• In Battletech, Tau Ceti is the first extrasolar star traveled to by human beings. This is accomplished by the TAS Pathfinder, a ship powered by the Kearny-Fushida drive. An earth-like planet is found orbiting it. Once colonized, it is named 'New Earth.'
• In Earth & Beyond, the Tau Ceti system has been colonized by the Terrans. It is one of the endpoints of the Somerled Trade Run.
• In EVE Online, the Gallente race are descendants of the human settlers from Tau Ceti.

RPG's

• In the GDW's 2300 AD, Kwantung is the second planet of Tau Ceti, a garden habitable world, and it houses the Manchurian colony of Changpai and the Mexican colony of Nuevo Angeles. Tau Ceti is beside the main access to the Latin systems.
• In Battlelords of the Twenty-Third Century, Tau Ceti is the home star system for an alien race known as the Phentari. Their homeworld, Phena, is a cold methane world.

Music

• "Tau Kita" (Template:Lang-ru, "Tau Ceti") is a song by Vladimir Vysotsky about an Earthling astronaut traveling to Tau Ceti in order to find out why was lost contact with its civilization.