Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The Age of Fighting Sail in S P A C E !! Date: 20 Nov 2024 18:55:50 GMT Organization: loft Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net EerAxXxK2/D7BTUzpfRFhgB2FBrovPGUTelZNFiPtunYuZew+W X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:bbTyRFUgU1pZBJGsE5xOflwJ9WI= sha256:BTo59Mmgyk/M62OkwuCrEQ12ScU4+N5xXvOZe2fJIE4= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Bytes: 2008 In article , Robert Woodward wrote: >Am I referring to David Weber's Honor Harrington series where the >characteristics of the space drive cause warships to fight broadside to >broadside? No. Am I referring to David Drake's Leary and Mundy series >where the FTL drive uses "sails"? No. > >I am referring to _Arabella and the Battle of Venus_ by David Levine >which is the 2nd book in his Arabella series*. This takes place in a >very strange solar system where breathable atmosphere exists in >interplanetary space. So we have 2 fleets of large c. 1800 sailing ships >(with 2 extra sets of masts set 120 degrees from the vertical ones) in >space shooting at each other with muzzle loading black powder cannon. >BTW, the commander of the British fleet is Admiral Horatio Nelson. > >*Both "The Wreck of the Mars Adventure" which appeared in the anthology >_Old Mars_ and "The End of the Silk Road" which appeared in the May-June >2014 issue of _F&SF_ belong to the same continuity. David Levine has >stated that "tEotSR" was written for _Old Venus_ but was not accepted >there. > Do you have an opinion of some sort about it? -- columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..