I’d love to hear about your favorite concept or idea you’ve read about or seen in scifi media.

My personal favorite is the Conjoiner Drive out of the Revelation Space series. These ship drives are dual drives on either side of a lighthugger and have a living being inside the drives to act as a supercomputer, which holds a wormhole open inside the drives. The wormhole links far in the past to the big-bang and uses the energy from the big-bang for propulsion.

In most scifi I’ve come across wormholes are used for FTL travel, and I thought this was such a unique and creative use of a wormhole it has stuck with me for years after reading about it.

So what are your favorite devices or ideas that have come out of scifi media?

  • khannie@lemmy.world
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    The evolved species in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “children of time” series. So much thought and detail went into them and he’s a fantastically descriptive storyteller. His command of language is superb.

    I don’t want to spoiler too much beyond that but it’s easily my favourite series.

    “We’re going on an adventure”