Modern Sci-Fi - the enslavement of scientific reality to religious delusion

:: But to get back to the original point, how does this differ from FTL,
:: teleportation, and so on? One can handwave about wormholes and
:: spacetime bubbles and such, and mechanisms now unknown for
:: manipulating same, but then one can handwave about bio-eeg or fifth
:: (or nth) forces or other now-unknown mechanisms for manipulating same.
::
:: They really seem quite similar, in terms of unrealistic-ness.

: Howard Brazee
: Maybe because one fantasy is by SF fans wishing for a SF future - the
: other fantasy is more pervasive that all children have had. We think
: our fantasies are more mature.

So... Vinge's Zones of Thought are more mature than Schmitz's Hub?

But OK, that's an interesting point. The in-group vs out-group
sharing of tropes and all. Nevertheless, I point out that the
in-group here has embraced telepathy, and the out-group has always
embraced various forms of 7-league boots. So while interesting,
it still doesn't convince me to treat them differently.


Wayne Throop http://sheol.org/throopw