an FTL tech question

[Dendrobius]

Hyperion-verse gets

Hawking Drive: slow, but it'll get you there

Farcaster: works like a Stargate (instant transport by stepping through gate), but you need to lend your brain to the TechnoCore in transit, and only works between two established portals.

Gideon Drive: fast (instant transport), but it kills you. Pilot and passenger seats are nothing more than a stainless steel tube designed to keep the mush in during transit, ready for resurrection upon arrival in system.

[Gullible Jones]

Instrumentality universe (Cordwainer Smith).

Space-2 (aka subspace): kind of like Babylon 5 hyperspace, except it's empty. For short-range interstellar travel, one dimension of a starship is rotated into subspace, making the ship appear flat in ordinary space (thus "planoforming"), and the ship is then rotated out again so that it appears at its destination; several such jumps are usually used, each lasting a few milliseconds. For longer distances, "shell ships" are used which are moved in their entirety into space-2.

Space-3: can get you almost anywhere in almost no time... But a) you arrive at your destination stark naked, b) the subjective time you spend in transit can be very long, and c) travelers may end up developing dangerous, involuntary psychic powers, going insane, or a number of other undesirable things. Also, Jesus is rumored to hang out in space-3, along with two-headed elephants and Arthur Rimbaud.

[Ryan Thunder]

Space-3: can get you almost anywhere in almost no time... But a) you arrive at your destination stark naked, b) the subjective time you spend in transit can be very long, and c) travelers may end up developing dangerous, involuntary psychic powers, going insane, or a number of other undesirable things. Also, Jesus is rumored to hang out in space-3, along with two-headed elephants and Arthur Rimbaud.

Reminds me of the Warp from 40K.

[Batman]

And I am surprised nobody mentioned that yet-HGTTG. Standard hyperdrive, Infinite Improbability Drive, and Bistromathic Drive

[TithonusSyndrome]

Mass Effect might qualify; the mass effect relays for going the bulk of the distance, and whatever minor FTL capacity their ships have for jetting around within star clusters.