Re: Hard Sci-fi?

ilya2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> > Do those books or TV shows NEED to violate physics to examine those
> > topics? My take on the subject is that they violate physics to tell
> > the story that they want to tell while exploring those topics. For
> > example _Starship troopers_ COULD have been told substantively the
> > same without FTL and especially without artificial gravity.
> 
> Without artificial gravity, sure, but without FTL the story would be
> impossible. Human interstellar expansion *under one government* (and
> that government's reaction to threats) is major part of the book, and
> you can not have that without FTL.

According to the late F.M. Busby, you can:
    *  Rissa Kerguelen and Bran Tregare
          o Hulzein
                + The Rebel Dynasty, Volume I (1987) [O/1,2]
                + The Rebel Dynasty, Volume II (1988) [O/3,4]
                + 1 Star Rebel (1984)
                + 2 Rebel's Quest (1985)
                + 3 The Alien Debt (1984)
                + 4 Rebels' Seed (1986) 
          o Rissa Kerguelen
                + Rissa Kerguelen (omnibus) (1977) [O/1,2]
                + 1 Rissa Kerguelen (1976)
                      # Variant Title: Rissa and Tregare (1984)
                      # Variant Title: Young Rissa (1984) 
                + 2 The Long View (1976)
                + 3 Zelde M'Tana (1980) 

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