Thanks! That's exactly what I needed. I was reading some hard Sci-Fi where the relative location and orbital speeds of the planets matters. If Jupiter's on the opposite side of the sun from Earth that's MUCH farther away than if it's on the same side...6 AU instead of 4.
glad.
what are you reading?
something or a book that really expanded my imagination was this short non-fiction book : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316287.A_Little_Book_of_Coincidence_in_the_Solar_System
available via Z lip which is Incorporated into Anna's archive which is currently the pinned post here on poal
Lightbringer. It's Pierce Brown's series about a slave caste of humans rebelling against their decadent, Roman-style aristocracy. Very much "You will own nothing and be happy" set in a hard sci fi future where humanity has colonized large parts of the solar system.
The author does a pretty good job of capturing the sheer size of the solar system where interplanetary travel takes weeks or months, acceleration and deceleration dramatically impacts that, as well as realism about how easy it is for your telescopes to lose track of enemy ships in an area as vast as our solar system.
Much better than soft sci fi where magic engines allows you to travel between planets in an hour, you can turn on a dime without turning your crew to paste, and "sensors" tell you everything you want to know from 10 AU out because technobabble.
Lightbringer
Holy shit, its rating on goodreads is 4.75 . unfortunately any book with " fantasy " or " space opera " as part of its description is completely out of bounds for me. but for everyone else that sounds like a great book
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