Not So Fast: Five Books Featuring Sublight Space Travel

[james_davis_nicoll]

Not So Fast: Five Books Featuring Sublight Space Travel

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[keith_morrison]

I know I've seen the de Camp cover in the past and chuckled at it, but man, thinking about it now I just realized that if someone didn't know it was real they'd think it was a parody of a bad SF cover.

[james_davis_nicoll]

tor dot com article 237

[oh6]

Gregory Benford's Galactic Centre novels end up being about a millennia-spanning war between humans (later, possibly a successor species) and machine entities, all done with STL travel.

Kevin O'Donnell Jr.'s Mayflies features an STL colony ship that turns into a much-STL generation ship due to an in-flight mishap, but I believe FTL is invented later, and the folks responsible, in an excessively convenient act of magnanimity, declare they'll leave the MSTL ship and its implausible target star alone.