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some novel much have been written about two civilisations multiple light years apart, communicating using messages that have latency of years...any examples ?
by iamgopal 7y ago
some novel much have been written about two civilisations multiple light years apart, communicating using messages that have latency of years...any examples ?
- lmm 7y agoVernor Vinge predicted a future galactic usenet - unreliable messages that might take a while to arrive, or need to go via multiple possible paths, are what usenet was built for.
- m4rtink 7y agoMany collonial empires worked with such latency before trains, steam ships, telegraph and wireless comunication became available.
- semi-extrinsic 7y agoI'm currently reading the Engines of Light trilogy by Ken MacLeod. In that universe, there is no FTL travel nor communication, but starships can travel literally at the speed of light. There are "spheres of influence" spanning some tens of lightyears, and the information delay between worlds is indeed a plot element.
- sten 7y agoThe communication delay is one of the key plot elements in The Three Body Problem books.
- sfifs 7y agoIt's a major plot element in Forever War.