I whole heartedly agree. As a sci-fi nut who has consumed vast reams of the stuff from the 1940s onward, reality pales. Firefly, I thought, rather neatly side

I whole heartedly agree. As a sci-fi nut who has consumed vast reams of the stuff from the 1940s onward, reality pales. Firefly, I thought, rather neatly sidestepped the FTL issue by putting everything in one vast solar system wherein even the moons had been terraformed (although that itself is a technology that is equally ... unlikely, although for different reasons). I've read not too many series wherein the absence of FTL was acknowledged. Sometimes reality just doesn't live up to the hype.