Re: Faster Than Light Travel

[snip]
>But thinking about it, I can only think of three truly different ways
to
>travel at high speeds in S.Fiction.  Every thing else is just a
variation
>of one of those themes:
>
>1) hyperspace / warp space / worm holes / etc.
>
>2) Folding / warping (changing the reality of space time)
>
>and
>
>3) conventional travel  straight line,  (if one believes: the light
barrier
>is just another barrier than every thinks can not be surpassed.  Much
like
>the sound barrier back in the way days. < we just don't know how /
>theoretically>)
>
>
>if any one can think of something else that's no related to any of
these
>(is truly different)  please let me know...
>
>I have been thinking about this for years now and have not come up with
any
>other theories..
>
>thanks
>
>CMC

IIRC (it was a LONG time ago that I read them), Brian Stableford's
"Hooded
Swan" series was pretty unique in that it had at least three different
types of FTL drive in use in the same setting! All I can remember is
that
one of them was called the P-Shifter (probability shifter), I think the
other two were more like the usual Hyperspace/Warp types; I just mention
this because it is a very unusual idea to have different races using
TOTALLY different FTL methods in the same book....

Jon (GZG)