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"Also, do these guys supposedly have transportation technology? That might make a bit of a mess of the concept of distance."I think we have a winner here. If you have nigh-limitless energy enabling instant transportation around a planet, you can live in Bangalore and commute to Des Moines.

On the other hand, if you have nigh-limitless energy, your option set is very large indeed. Sci fi and fantasy typically fail to see through the implications of changing important assumptions.

And I'm also in the Campbellian school. Space opera is doing something very different from hard science fiction.

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Not to claim (or deny) that he's representative, but Star Trek's Scotty is a heroic engineer. The new movie makes him the isolated mad scientist / inventor, but in the original series he was a maintainer of tools, called to heroism by circumstance, I think.

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