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?

  • pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe
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    23 days ago

    Yeah, there’s certainly a degree to how SciFi something is.

    But you could remove their scifi elements and tell star wars and Dune as fantasy stories and you wouldn’t loose too much substance. I’d call them science fantasy at best.

    But star trek, though it has magic, relies heavily on the SciFi concepts to tell a story. I’d consider it SciFi through and through.