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Old 09-19-2015, 11:30 PM   #8
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Default Re: When Worlds Collide

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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2 View Post
Credible on what time scale? A galactic passage at normal galactic velocities takes megayears to unfold. Do your characters care if the EH's threats will take 837,184 years before their world is affected?
Charles Stross's "Palimpsest" has an utterly brilliant treatment of this, coming closer to Stapledonian sf than anything else I've seen.
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