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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: 21 Nov 2024 18:32:09 GMT
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In article <vhnsqv$oasq$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 11/20/2024 1:05 PM, 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.
>> 
>
>That's a wild scenario. Did they address the issue of wind resistance
>causing planets to slow down and spiral into the sun?
>
>pt

Did Niven address that in the Smoke Ring?
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