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Sort of related: There's a SF short story -- can't recall the name or author -- in which the main character is zipping around the universe at multiples of the speed of light, as in I'm traveling at 48X or 48 times the speed of light. The ship's engine is powered by suns and as each sun is used up it screams in agony, which can be heard from inside the ship. Anyhow eventually the guy burns though the last sun in that galaxy and is stranded in space. There was a larger plot which I forget but I always thought that concept of the ship's engine was kinda neat.