I’m writing a work where characters are on a fictional planet not in our solar system. I wanted to refer to the planet’s star/source of light as “the sun” still, but is that correct? Is the sun as we know it the only “sun”, or is sun simply a word to describe our source of light?
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Wouldn’t sweat it friend. Soooo many sci fi and fantasy novels have characters stick things ‘into the earth’.
And sometimes their characters eat off china plates.
Even the mighty Frank Herbert used the word “ghibli” to describe a desert wind on Dune when the etymology of ghibli is that of a specific wind blowing from “qibla”, a location only found on what would then be super ancient Earth.
I too agonise over these things (can I use “excruciating” if my setting has never had a crucifixion?), but in the end if it doesn’t take the reader out of the story, then it’s probably fine. Let your sun shine.
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