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Speed Redefined
Read more: Speed RedefinedLast week in my post on this website, I blogged about the vast distances between star systems and how difficult it would be to travel between them. It’s a contention of mine that those immense distances are at least one of the main factors, if not the main one, that keeps aliens from other planets…
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Suspending Disbelief
Read more: Suspending DisbeliefAs a member of the science-fiction writing community, I have to deal with a phenomenon that probably comes up in our genre more often and much more strongly than in any other genre, that of the “suspension of disbelief.” This refers to the fact that in science fiction we write stories that utilize objects, phenomena,…