Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: How to fix bad sci-fi Message-ID: <15488@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 12:35:38 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.15488 Posted: Fri Jun 28 12:35:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 02:11:11 EDT References: <419@carina.noao.UUCP> <294@looking.UUCP> <262@inuxm.UUCP> Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 11 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