[Spaceships] Actually GMing a world with Pseudovelocity drives?

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

I do not believe this to be accurate.


There was little or nothing about FTL ships in the Family D'Alembert novella that Smith actually wrote and Lord Tedric was about Time Travel and medieval fantasy. Goldin and Eklunds continuations of these series are soemthing I can't comment on though I believe I read the Goldin works.

Goldin's continuation just used a 'conventional' sfnal hyperdrive and called it subspace, it was just a part of the general background.

Smith himself considered the Skylark stories to be fantasy rather than SF because he simply ignored relativity entirely (matter in the Skylark world can travel as fast as it can be accelerated, there's no limit) and he also ignored the kinetic impactor issue (even without relativistic effects, any spacecraft moving at many times the speed of light is a WMD even under Newtonian physics, and Smith did know that).