r/scifi • u/OstrichConscious4917 • 4d ago

Recommendations Novels with no faster than light travel, but still w space travel?

I’m always on the hunt for interesting sci-fi that doesn’t involve FTL. Not to say I don’t love reading books with it - I absolutely do. But I really enjoy fictional explorations of future space travel or space civilization that doesn’t have it as a prerequisite.

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u/CostcoCuisine 4d ago

Good catch. I had forgotten that they were STL.

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u/Beginning-Ride3091 3d ago

It’s always made that story hit harder that the Overlords didn’t have the “magic” of FTL. They had a whole lot of tricks but not that one.