The Galactic Travel Guide
Since I was quite young, reading any sort of future sci-fi where humanity has expanded out into the universe will inevitably use real life stars to house planetary systems, either colonized by Earthicans (to borrow a turn of phrase from Futurama), inhabited by aliens, or the subject of exploration (usually with unusual lifeforms or ancient ruins).
Often they would just be offhand comments using well-known star names (Rigel, Deneb, Sirius) or using the common Bayer nomenclature (Greek letter + constellation name) without any real thought to where the star war relative the Earth or with any other stars also mentioned. Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor, who inevitably be one of the first visited.
However, you would occasionally have situations where there was a more concerted effort to use real-world data. The Traveller: 2300 TTRPG, published in 1986, extensively used the Gliese Catalog of Near Stars to populate their setting. However, once the first actual exoplanets were discovered (the first confirmation from October 1995), there began a stronger interest in correlating fictional settings with real-world data. At this point, I felt there was enough information to actually put together a document to explore these fictional settings and how they are used. I present, the Galactic Travel Guide! Here's what's in it:
Star Trek: Probably the most significant contribution, forming the basis of document. While the series has made RL references from the start - even with more uncommon ones like Sigma Draconis - and has had various maps and charts made over the years, Geoffrey Mandel's Star Trek Star Charts is doing the heavy lifting, because it includes a large number of RL stars amidst ones from the series, mostly close to Earth. That the maps have frequently appeared in recent ST shows makes it easier to include them (and I do have a separate list I am working on just for Star Trek itself).
Alien: The Alien franchise might seem an odd choice - there's barely any real planetary systems mentioned in the series beyond Zeta Reticuli (the location of Alien, Aliens, and Prometheus). However, it has a vast expanded universe, and Free League's Alien RPG (2019) put them together and used RL stars to flesh out the universe, mostly within 20 parsecs of Earth.
Starfield: The Bethesda near-future video game (2023) assigns most of the star systems you visit a number from the Gliese Catalog and thus can be identified for this guide.
Dune: There are a number of star systems mentioned, mostly in the index of the first novel. At first glance, many of them appear to be fictional and/or unidentifiable; however, a closer examination showed that Frank Herbert was fond of using some nonstandard usages and we can in fact identify some of the stars after all.
Foundation/Robots/Empire: Isaac Asimov's grand future epic, merging disconnected stories into one timeline by the end of his life, is a borderline case. There are not a lot of RL star systems mentioned, although there are two interesting ones from his later works
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