It’s addictive, not addicting.

Although probably need to get someone in to handle the female characters - writing women is not his strong point…

Hell yes!

Peter Hamilton’s nights dawn trilogy, and his commonwealth saga. Both really good space opera, with varied characters and plot lines.

Are people really thst bothered about which way they are facing when travelling?

Jesus, this hurts my soul…

Vactor.

We don’t have to be special though. We can only exist at certain points in space time, under certain conditions. Those conditions are currently met, therfore we can exist, regardless of the infinite time/space conditions where we can’t.