If that was a genuine unintentional glitch it''s one of the best things to happen on this forum. Oh, and Culture wins. It's telling that...
I feel there's a related component in not showing politics within the Federation, except in points of crisis. When there's a coup planned, a...
As I recall Kurn requested the procedure, and was actively suicidal. Worf and others made an attempt to get him interested in other things but it...
I had just watched the first season of Andromeda, and wondered about a Borg vs Commonwealth fight and how it would go. I put that search term into...
From your post I'm going to guess that you haven't read Banks, and your evaluation of the Culture comes from how it gets talked about in...
To which we could add Ken Macleod, Kim Stanley Robinson, Adam Roberts, Alastair Reynolds, Ian McDonald....I'd say more ambitious social...
It doesn't seem that having the legal right to dispose of azi was that unusual, just that it was atypical to do it with highly trained and...
Compared to most SF, though, it's hardish. As an aside, Revelation Space standards applied to 40K as a whole would arguably be good for humanity....
The SW environment is about the perfect situation that genestealers could ask for, especially with extremely cheap and useful FTL. No matter what the...
That would actually make regular warp a lot more useful in that context, ships could do controlled warp one shoots to cut down the transit time...
No reason that it should, the modes of FTL aren't exactly similar, and if hardscifi standards suddenly applied to the Imperium nothing they have...
I don't think the Romulans are that shortsighted. They've suffered from a Borg incusion before, and wouldn't want to take the chance of the Borg...
That's the inherent problem with a revolutionary vanguard, a small elite that seeks to seize control of the state and setup its own leadership,...
That's not quite what I'm asking about--even when they're militarily dominant (and are beset by internal instability, and their kingdom is broke)...
That doesn't follow, among others things structural violence from the bottom isn't aiming at "social reform" in any meaningful sense--by definition...
This is going to change almost everything in the setting. Even if normal hyperdrive had come back after 20 years, the die-off, trade disruption,...
A lot of dystopias come to mind, particularly the stable hyper-militarized ones. Kallocain comes to mind--two totalitarian states locked in eternal...
It goes against the no curbstomps, but Imperial Earth from A. E. Van Vogt's Mission to the Stars. A significant qualitative superiority (the average...
Ah, the Waters Rising. I read it a few years ago. It wasn't very good, to the extent it made almost no impression on me after the fact. Tepper has...
Generally it's a good idea to have different factions/superpowered individuals that might contest each other to be in the same general range of...
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