"just zap a bubble into a star. Fill it with crap. Do stuff to it. Make the star explode or never exist."
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A few years later, I find out that Charles Stross does exactly "do weird time shit to the centers of stars" in Iron Sunrise.
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Given the name, Death Star, I had all these expectations for something either the size of a star, or able to kill a star.
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None of them were met. All I saw was a buncha goddamn cowboys playing with a christmas ornament
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"for fucks sake can't they at least just fill it with prisoners, then zap it into the core of the star 5 billion years ago."
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Basically Alastair Reynolds and Iain Banks wrote far better wars involving stars, that were actually scifi.
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Ok, here's a concrete example: E.E. Smith's Lensmen series. This is the series that shaped scifi up to today.
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In book one, you see nuclear weapons used against nuke-proof metal mesas, by humans.
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Each book, the stakes get higher, the enemies become more evil, the weapons more horrifying.
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By book 4 they are flinging antimatter planets at each other at faster-than-light speeds, and fighting immortal chaos flatworms.
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<3 the sunbeam, the nicest sounding weapon to be rated in a GURPS splatbook in # of seconds hiding behind a planet gives cover
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