To: zeugma
If you dig military SF, the Honor Harrington series by David Drake does a really good job of explaining what real battles in space might be like. It’s more martime warfare in space than star wars. Large ships of the wall standing off firing broadsides. Battles are fought at such distances that you don’t actually “see” anything except through sensors. Weber not Drake.
And even manouvering at 500 G acceleration, it takes hours (or days) to get into range. Space is big.
53 posted on
09/29/2014 7:24:47 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
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To: Oztrich Boy
You’re right. Weber. In my defence, they do seem to write similar stuff. :-)
54 posted on
09/29/2014 7:27:20 PM PDT by
zeugma
(The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
To: Oztrich Boy
Weber not Drake. You caught that one too, eh? Drake writes a lot of material. You might want to look up the Baen Free Library, and related issued/produced Free Library CDs. I think there were 24 CDs released in total (that I have been able to find to date) for a great mound of free reading material.
56 posted on
09/29/2014 7:37:16 PM PDT by
Utilizer
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To: Oztrich Boy; zeugma
Of course, David Weber writes quite a lot as well, some very interesting indeed.
57 posted on
09/29/2014 8:00:55 PM PDT by
Utilizer
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To: Oztrich Boy; zeugma
Of course, David Weber writes quite a lot as well, some very interesting indeed.
58 posted on
09/29/2014 8:00:55 PM PDT by
Utilizer
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