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You Can Take It With You
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
by Robert Metzger
Copyright © 1998 by Robert A. Metzger. First published in the Summer 1998 issue of the Bulletin of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Interstellar space travel. We dream about it. We write about it. Science fiction writers have come up with all manners of interstellar travel, ranging from multigenerational arks, to wormhole generating warp drives that can spit you across the galaxy in a blink of an eye. As wondrous and amazing as all these approaches may be, most suffer from a very fundamental problem.
Traveling for long distances, over long periods of time, can be a colossal pain in the butt. You can never pack all your stuff. You always forget something. Did you lock the door? Did you turn off the iron? You forgot to say good-bye to Aunt Mildred, who will be dead by some 12,000 years when you return due to relativistic effects. And then there is that library book you forgot to return.
What to do?
The answer should be obvious. Just take it all with you. (more…)
Tags: interstellar, physics, robert metzger, science, space travel
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photos
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Phil Plait, of the famed Bad Astronomy blog, points out the first of the photos from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. They are a Science Fiction writer’s equivalent of space porn. Sleek, sexy photos loaded with details. As Phil says, “That’s like looking out your airplane window… if you were over the frakking Moon!”
Incidentally, for those of you writing SF set in space, the Bad Astronomy blog is a wealth of resources and story ideas. It will also do much to save you from having bad astronomy in your fiction.
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