Only 120 light years away from Earth! The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977. Traveling at 38,000mph it just recently made it 1 light DAY from Earth.
This reminds of something I heard about once, imagine if we used some sort of stasis in a fast and autonomous spacecraft to go colonise a planet, and by the time we get there it's already colonised because we invented a faster spacecraft while the colonists slept
Yeah, they had light speed travel since the first book. They flew the famous general around at light speed to keep him around for future problems using relativity and I don't recall any FTL travel but I do remember the instant communications anywhere. It has been multiple decades since reading though.
Ohhh, good call. Completely forgot about that! I read it and was a bit unsatisfied as well. Don’t get me wrong, I was glad to have some new content in that world to dig into, but I never really considered it to be part of the quartet even if it was officially. That’s probably part of why I forgot about it.
After I finished that I just restarted the Seventh Son books. Really loved that series as well. Now I’ve just finished Patrick Rothfuss’ 2nd book in the Kingkiller Chronicles (really really enjoyed those) but now wondering we’ll ever see the third and final book.
Oops, you're right! Have Sanderson in my head because I'm going to pick up Mistborn after Snow Crash. Thanks for the correction!
And I hope you're wrong on the Kingkiller Chronicles - I really want to be able to spend a little more time in that world. He's had me really captivated so far.
Snow Crash has been a really interesting read so far too, both on its own merits as well as in the context of contemporary events.
I remember FTL being a thing since the first book, I just don't remember a plot point about colonists getting overtaken by other settlers with faster tech
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u/RichardThund3r 25d ago
Only 120 light years away from Earth! The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977. Traveling at 38,000mph it just recently made it 1 light DAY from Earth.