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?

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I forget which series it was from, but people could communicate long space diatances by whispering in a semiconscious telepathic beings ear and another being on the other end would speak the words.

    Also the explanation of the inertia drive in the BattleField Eath book was interesting. Instead of a propulsion system the engine moved space coordinates of the matter in the engine and the engine/ship had to shunt forward to match the new position.