Five Works That Demonstrate Why Portal Networks Remain an SF Staple

And not just because having the characters die of old age sixty years
into a two-thousand-year journey to Proxima would be a downer.

https://reactormag.com/five-works-that-demonstrate-why-portal-networks-remain-an-sf-staple/
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jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) writes:
>Five Works That Demonstrate Why Portal Networks Remain an SF Staple
>
>And not just because having the characters die of old age sixty years
>into a two-thousand-year journey to Proxima would be a downer.
>
>
>https://reactormag.com/five-works-that-demonstrate-why-portal-networks-remain-an-sf-staple/

It's hard to believe that Stargate came out a third of a century ago.

Weber's Dahak Trilogy showed a significant downside of
portal networks (https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/planetary-protection).

On 3/12/24 10:08 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Works That Demonstrate Why Portal Networks Remain an SF Staple
>
> And not just because having the characters die of old age sixty years
> into a two-thousand-year journey to Proxima would be a downer.
>
>
> https://reactormag.com/five-works-that-demonstrate-why-portal-networks-remain-an-sf-staple/

Interesting article - thanks.

Discarding the eleventy-teen[1] examples that come to mind from last
century, the Expanse universe eventually acquires/adds a whole lot of
portals to its universe. Sanderson's Stormlight Archive[2] has
Oathgates, and Leckie's Imperial Radch universe uses Gates.

Tony
[1] Well, at least three anyhow.
[2] In which I have well and truly stalled.