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Faster Than Light Travel is a staple of Space Opera that allows an "out" to the unfortunate fact that space is honking big, making it impossible (within physics as we understand it now) to get anywhere remotely interesting within the average lifetime of a civilization. This has been an issue for writers since The Fifties or so; before then you could get away with having your aliens come from [...] [tvtropes.org]Example items
| Item | Rating |
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| Bit Rot (10) |  |
| The Message (3) | |
| Sleepers (2) | |
| Consider Phlebas (1) | |
| Ender's Game (1) | |