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      10 months ago

      Fantastic hard sci-fi book series. And it didn’t focus on this one high concept but has lots of themes about humanity. PS: Apparently a TV series is under development!

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        I never really understood why people called it similar to The Forever War.

        The “similar premise” is mostly just acknowledging that relativity is important to space travel.

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          10 months ago

          Wait, Old Man’s War has FTL? Or was it important for in-system battles? I haven’t read them in a while.

          I recently red The Star Carrier Series by Ian Douglas and that has FTL and interesting hard-sci fi battles with relativity effects.

          I agree that the forever war is quite different in concept and style, much more esoterical.

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            OMW uses “skip drives” which are teleportation through multidimensional travel, time dilation is still a bit of a factor, but not nearly to the extent of The Forever War where it’s practically the whole idea (as far as the science in the sci-fi goes)