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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: The Age of Fighting Sail in S P A C E !!
Date: 20 Nov 2024 18:55:50 GMT
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In article <robertaw-4AD871.10053320112024@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> 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.
>

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