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- From: afwendy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (WENDY WARTNICK)
- Subject: Re: FTL drives
- Message-ID: <23JUL199211364603@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Summary: those in McIntyre's books
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- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
- References: <a5d14b07@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au> <66410001@acf3.NYU.EDU> <20755@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>
- Date: 23 Jul 1992 11:36 EST
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- In article <20755@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>, slb@slced1.nswses.navy.mil (Shari L Brooks) writes...
- >I never saw the original request, so am unsure if you have this...In Vonda
- >McIntyre's _superluminal_, they traveled along hyperdimensional axes (the
- >higher the dimension, the farther you went). This travel was incompatible
- >with rhythms and pilots had to replace their hearts with mechanical, non-
- >beating pumps.
- >
- >Also, in another McIntyre book, the ship uses a solar sail to get to a
- >magnetic cosmic string, grabs the string with magnetic claws, rotates around
- >it to end up elsewhere in the galaxy.
-
- funny you should mention this...I just finished this "other" book, it was
- called "Starfarers". Not a bad book!
-
- wendy
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