Five SF Novels Inspired by Disproven Scientific Theories

[james_davis_nicoll]

Plenty of exciting hypotheses eventually fall out of scientific favor — but not before they've found their way into science fiction!

Five SF Novels Inspired by Disproven Scientific Theories

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[(Anonymous)]

Technically the ship in the Orthogonal series travels faster than light, but since the whole story is set in a universe designed entirely around having no lightspeed limit, I'm not sure it counts. There's not even a single "speed of light" there.

[scott_sanford]

The flight plan in Orthogonal is more like a relativistic journey, except that in that universe the "relativity" works very, very differently.