Space operas that include superliminal travel and/or force fields are basically afterlife fantasies even if they are otherwise hard-sci-fi
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How is it an afterlife fantasy when the threat of losing one's life is a central plot point?
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Afterlifes are about eternal (out-of-time) bliss of some sort. Immortality is a nice-to-have feature for some, bug for others
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You can achieve specific kinds of shields to specific kinds of force projection while staying amidst a range of sci-fi.
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Force fields make for fertile fiction and superluminar might even be real. No clue how its linked to inability of imagining own nonexistence
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The thing that makes science fiction science fiction is not that the physics of the world is realistic but that it matters to the story




