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Too easy.

Space: 1889, Games Designers Workshop, liftwood.

ffutures wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:43 am

Too easy - Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes, Dream Park

Much too easy. Take it away!

Okay, I'm thinking of a book where the protagonists are, in a manner of speaking, on an island where the primitive natives might make wooden aeroplanes, and where said protagonists do end up finding a wooden aeroplane - a very large one which actually does fly. Title and authors, please?

Chanur series; C J Cherryh

Pilot 1: It matches a Thargoid ship to me. Go inform tell the Passengers that we are under attack to kiss their asses goodbye FTFY :lol: This was like one of those little bits of cheese they sometimes hand out at Tesco: tasty and not nearly enough! Take this talent of yours and run with it - we can...

Now, new data reveal the interstellar interloper to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish hue. The asteroid, named ‘Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated—perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That aspect ratio is greater th...

No, space doesn't work like that - there is gravity as long as you're anywhere near a planet or a star, which heavily restricts how real spacecraft behave, and also, a rocket's fuel is a huge component of its mass and most of a Saturn V's take-off weight was fuel + somewhere to put it. In order to ...

It's cold outside
There's no kind of atmosphere
I'm all alone, more or less...

Clearly there has been some linguistic drift over the centuries, and what they are now calling "tree wolfs" are the creatures that, in a more primitive time and place, were known as "drop bears".

drew wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:52 pm

Malacandra wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:40 am

Hiya, pressure from whom, may I ask?

The powers that be.

Cheers,

Drew.

Ah, on account of your writing official E:D fiction as well, I guess? Nothing to worry about as far as my bumbling efforts are concerned, then.

Hiya, pressure from whom, may I ask?

Okay then. Similar theme: why should Qadgop the Mercotan have died horribly? This is the alien in the novel Kimball Kinnison writes, isn't it? As I recall, he touches neutronium, which is only stable at hundreds of gravities, which should have pulled him in and squashed him to a uniform layer of mo...

Okay then. Similar theme: why should Qadgop the Mercotan have died horribly?

Disembodied wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:02 pm

Another clue: we're talking about the transmutation of elements, and laws of physics still apply …

Radiation? You'd need fusion to create gold from the elements in a normal egg...

Well, dayum. Looks like Janissaries isn't getting finished, then.