Kyle Mathews
@kam
Are there any sci-fi novels that seriously try to grapple with the problems of multiple galaxies?
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Last few pages of foundation and earth
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
Ah nice. I also remembered The Player of Games is set in a different galaxy.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Barely… Large Magellanic Cloud. And the location plays no real role except proving some extra training time.
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
Yeah true. I was reading a book where you could travel instantly through a sort of wormhole concept but all action was confined w/o explanation to the milky way. So I was curious how other books treated multiple galaxies more realistically.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
There’s not much that could be different I suspect. AFAIK, there are no physics level diffs you could leverage. Maybe colliding galaxies? Stars have more variety than galaxies. So deepness in the sky exploits a variable star’s physics to make an interesting plot for eg. Star Trek Voyager is farthest quadrant of galaxy and I like it because the use the remoteness to develop whole different menagerie of aliens. When alpha quadrant species show up, it’s like they’re meta aliens together. On earth scale, it’s like Australian ecology. Weird marsupials and way too many poisonous critters. Americas/Eurasia ecological distance is a weaker version. But I think galaxy scale is so huge, there will be regression to evolutionary possibilities mean. You actually smaller scale to drive significant variability.
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