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Re:When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’... by addingnumbers on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:33PM (#29083609)
Speaker for the Dead and the ensuing novels in the Ender's Game series managed to tell multi-stellar stories with sub-light travel and relativistic effects.

Also most of the Three-Body Problem trilogy, there is no FTL until the very end when they jump forward by aeons.

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Re:When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’... by goatlover on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:00PM (#29084005)
Fair enough, but if you have a galactic empire, some sort of fast travel is needed.
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Re:When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’... by garmaine on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:13PM (#29084223)
Read Deepness in the Sky for an alternative take.
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