I want to write a book where the universe is made up of a ton of planets that are called empires. I want to be able to have the ships be like sailing ships. They would be able to go across the vast empires through a sort of jet stream in the space. Do you think this would be accepted in the Sci-Fi community or should I start new?
Thanks for the help,
Thimsric
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Larklight was kind of similar to that, and it is certainly sf. It isn't really hard sf (based on your brief description), but sounds like it would be welcome in the sf community.
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I think it's a fine idea. Start new? No way!
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It's very similar to an idea I have, you can take the idea so many ways.
If you build a sort of 20000 leagues under the sea type ship and add sails you can have a bit of a steam punk space fairing real sci-fi. Where most if not all the tech and science is existant. You could go the other way where ther is air in space and all (read larry nivens Itegral trees and smoke ring for a feel of this sort of setting) or even pretend there is a down direction. That would be a sub-genre of sci-fi that is usually called science fantasy. It's not technically fantasy because of the setting and tech being to contemporary and the theme of exploration and expansion fits more with the sci-fi catagory, but it's not sci-fi either because the science and tech are just completely made up. It's usually found in the sci-fi section though.
I intend to take a mostly realistic approach with my setting and am only including a few small touches of suspention of disbelief. Mainly to do with setting a down direction with gravity changes, and speeds achieved through inertia and friction alterations. Both achieved through specially created alloys/compounds. Other then that they are all stuck in the tech level of the Pirate and colonial expansion and exploration. I've solved my atmosphere problem and the sails in space with real science theory. Even the materials mentioned above have some basis on some tech being speculated about for frictionless bearings on the nanoscale and the casmir effect.
I want it to be as realistic a sci-fi as possable with the entire fantastic feel to it.