The section about planets with multiple stars, and the one about a planet crashing into its star, both made me thing of the Liu Cixin trilogy ("The Three-Body Problem"). The aliens' planet is part of a three-star system (an imagined version of the Alpha Centauri system), and chaos is very much a part of the picture.
The section about planets with multiple stars, and the one about a planet crashing into its star, both made me thing of the Liu Cixin trilogy ("The Three-Body Problem"). The aliens' planet is part of a three-star system (an imagined version of the Alpha Centauri system), and chaos is very much a part of the picture.
The Three Body Problem was definitely on my mind as I was writing those sections!