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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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[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a big fan of Adrian Tchaikovsky's work, but one concept of his that I am fascinated by comes from his book "Alien Clay":

Spoilers below

On the planet the protagonist finds himself on, life has evolved to be fundamentally symbiotic to an absurd degree. Essentially, individual organisms specialize in something... say... jumping. And then they offer their services to whatever macro community comes along. So "creatures" are just communities of individual, highly specialized members who are essentially all free agents. Just wild.

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

Not gonna read the spoiler because I already have it on my list to read, but I really enjoyed the children series. Excited to get to Alien Clay now

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't believe how prolific that guy is. He puts out like 3 novels per year, and the vast majority of them are absolute bangers. Just finished book 4 in the Children series the other day, and it blew me away.

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

Nice didn't know a 4th was released

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yup! Just a couple months ago.