Can we go there?
Distance, cost, technology, the health hazards of a strange new world.
There are a huge number of reasons why visiting exoplanets is difficult.
But imagination can take us there right now.
Star Wars
Intergalactic travel is essential to the plot of the groundbreaking Star Wars films. The X-Wing fighter can only travel at 625mph in a planet’s atmosphere. Between solar systems its hyperdrive allows it to travel faster than light. Come see a small reproduction in the exhibition.
Iain M. Banks
Renowned science-fiction writer Iain M. Banks created sketches to explore ideas for his novels featuring other worlds and inter-planetary travel. Come see them in the exhibition.
FROM THE EXHIBITION
From Ken MacLeod’s Engines of Light Trilogy to Doctor Who and Star Wars,
sci-fi goes where science might never be able to get to. Or does it?
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