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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: How to fix bad sci-fi
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 12:35:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 12:35:38 1985
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Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

I still say you can't have good *interstellar* adventure without FTL.
Sure you can fly planets and ark ships on long missions, but that's
really just one society, and there is not interstellar commerce or
meeting.

I won't go so far as to say it's all impossible, but about the only
way you could pull it off would be with ships that use artificial
gravity to pull 1000 gs, and have no concern about the rest of society
since it all vanishes behind them.   Better to use FTL.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473