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[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's how I remember it. The similar premise is that in both stories people leave earth and go on extended war campaigns.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 9 months ago

Right, but that's like, half of science fiction!