Five Works That Demonstrate Why Portal Networks Remain an SF Staple

And not just because having the characters die of old age sixty years
into a two-thousand-year journey to Proxima would be a downer.


https://reactormag.com/five-works-that-demonstrate-why-portal-networks-remain-an-sf-staple/
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[email protected] (James Nicoll) writes:

Five Works That Demonstrate Why Portal Networks Remain an SF Staple

And not just because having the characters die of old age sixty years
into a two-thousand-year journey to Proxima would be a downer.

https://reactormag.com/five-works-that-demonstrate-why-portal-networks-remain-an-sf-staple/

It's hard to believe that Stargate came out a third of a century ago.

Weber's Dahak Trilogy showed a significant downside of
portal networks (https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/planetary-protection).

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