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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?

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[-] ashenone@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Is this from Translation State? That's what came up when I searched Anne leckie translators, but sounds like something I'd enjoy.

Have you read Embassytown? It has some funky linguistics going on that sounds like it might be up your alley

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Translation State is a standalone book in her Imperial Radch universe, which includes the Ancillary Justice trilogy, which is a great series. I highly recommend it.

[-] Yaky@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

A Translator appears in Ancillary Sword, and it's pretty much "try to simulate a human" silly stuff for comic relief.

[-] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

It’s a theme that runs through the Ancillary series, and is further expounded on in Translation State. I like the latter, but the way she writes them in the series is something else, it’s an incredibly imaginative and funny piece of writing. I love those three books, I think they’re amongst the best sci-fi ever committed to paper.

I haven’t read it, but I will now I reckon, thanks for the recommendation

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