Orphans of the Sky

Science fiction has always been good at finding ways to get from one point in space to another. Some methods are a bit more implausible than others: traveling faster than the speed of light breaks the laws of physics as we know them, but if you don’t mind taking your time, a ship going a bit slower […]

To quote Douglas Adams, “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” Considering we already routinely get lost just driving to a new city—even with the benefit of a tiny AI giving us directions—there’s no questioning that once humans have reached the point that we’re actually traveling […]