Anyway the attempt to build a hard barrier between "science fiction" and "horror" came from within the SF community, a lot of whom were really ideological and snobbish This was a whole theme of Joseph Campbell's deliberate push to change the genre during his career at Astounding
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Can move forward without taking several weeks or months to accelerate and decelerate while moving at impulse to protect their crew and equipment from dangerous G-forces
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i'm not even sure why they need to mention them at all they could just say that a special property of warp is that the people subjectively don't feel like they're moving, it's already made up!
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Compare to Lensman, a classic of space opera, in which the writer is very interested in building on the logical implications of the tech that cancels inertia.
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On of the Star Trek tech guys was once asked at a ComiCon panel, "How do Heisenberg Compensators work?" "Very well, thank you!"
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