“preserve/restore human intuitions and emotions relating to distance (far away lands and so on)”
Arguably Special Relativity already does this for us. Although I freely admit that a space opera is kind of the antithesis of a Weirdtopia.
“preserve/restore human intuitions and emotions relating to distance (far away lands and so on)”
Arguably Special Relativity already does this for us. Although I freely admit that a space opera is kind of the antithesis of a Weirdtopia.