[ReacTor] Why Portal Networks Remain an SF Staple

[James Nicoll]

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/

[Scott Lurndal]

Post by James Nicoll
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).

[Tony Nance]

Post by James Nicoll
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.