kvmreview.blogg.se - A fire upon the deep series

Even my favorite sci-fi war novel of all time, The Forever War, has an alien race as the (alleged) belligerents in a war against humankind. I will also recommend a sci-fi novel with some similarities to RimWorld.Īliens in sci-fi always bugs me a little. RimWorld draws a lot of inspiration from other sci-fi series and books.

You can read a bit of the first book for free (and legally) under the 'open preview tab' here : It's a good book series if you haven't already read it. Some unexplained limitations prevent high-level intelligence in the 'unthinking depths', with human-level intelligence in the 'slow zone' and the ability for super-human intelligence (complex AI) in the 'beyond. The milky way is split up into these different zones. Here are some depictions in the book with a bit of text explaining them.

Marbles/Planets completely destroyed by conflictīut now the few things different from Rimworld.

A distinction between rimworlds and Glitterworlds (core worlds in the book).

Transcendents (called 'powers' in the books).

The main characters get stranded and have to start over in technology.

Slower than light speed (few exceptions).The "A fire Upon the Deep" book series (especially #2 in the series, A Deepness In the Sky) shares much of the following lore with Rimworld,