BFRH 2018 08 24: John Lambshead on FTL and SF; and Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia, Part 6.

Dr. John Lambshead, science fiction author and eminent biologist, discusses his nonfiction article for Baen.com "Why FTL Will End the Universe—and Six Ways to Avoid It in an SF Story." Lambshead says the lack of FTL travel is not an engineering problem to be overcome, but a basic fact of the universe as we know it. Nevertheless, Lambshead lays out some tried-and-true ways for science fiction writers to get around this inconvenient nature of reality; and Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia, Part 6.