How can space-war fiction account for radiation, low gravity and objects that keep moving?
Short answerEmpire Rising addresses these problems through its imagined future science; the appeal lies in recognizing and explaining the constraints.
NotesA viewer raises radiation shielding, the effect of low gravity on crews, and the continuing motion of projectiles. Possible interference with communications and sensors also enters the objection. The favorable response to Empire Rising rests on the books addressing those problems within their setting. Accepting the solutions requires accepting the more advanced science of a story set several hundred years in the future.