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Favorite scifi concept? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by ashenone@lemmy.ml to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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I'd love to hear about your favorite concept or idea you've read about or seen in scifi media.

My personal favorite is the Conjoiner Drive out of the Revelation Space series. These ship drives are dual drives on either side of a lighthugger and have a living being inside the drives to act as a supercomputer, which holds a wormhole open inside the drives. The wormhole links far in the past to the big-bang and uses the energy from the big-bang for propulsion.

In most scifi I've come across wormholes are used for FTL travel, and I thought this was such a unique and creative use of a wormhole it has stuck with me for years after reading about it.

So what are your favorite devices or ideas that have come out of scifi media?

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

piers anthony has a series called I think kirilian quest. There is no ftl and the law of physics as we know them can't be circumvented (I think its been awhile but maybe its real difficult and rarely used). Anyway all civilizations eventually realize astral projection is possible and time and space make no difference. Thing is it takes two types of people to work. People with strong auras can project and people with weak auras can be possesed. Its not a requirement but more it will work better and last longer. Anyway people with the strongest auras get jobs traveling and people with the lowest get jobs as vessels. This is how communication between societies in an intergalactic culture communicate and interact.

[–] ashenone@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yea thats pretty cool definitely gonna check this out

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

One more warning, he's a chauvinist pedophile

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

just one word of warning he is more of a fantasy writer so the alien species are a bit fantastic. On the other hand they are not all humanoid. In fact quite the opposite. So sci fantasy but definately different.