Greg Bear's 1990 novel Queen of Angels includes a Starwisp probe sending footage of a planet that might be occupied back to Earth.
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Charles Stross, in his novel Accelerando, propels a small payload to a hypothetical brown dwarf star, 3 light-years away, using a Starwisp propulsion system, as well as using starwisps as kinetic-kill missiles against space-based warships.