Re: Submarines in space

Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Jarrard wrote:
> >
> > In a book called SALVAGE AND DESTROY (can't remember the author), a
> > scout for an extremely stable, ancient galactic civilization decides
> > that Earth must be destroyed because of our aggressive nature and
(more
> > importantly) the fact that the U.S. and Soviet sub forces would
provide
> > us with a ready-made war fleet as soon as we discovered FTL and
> > anti-grav (apparently these were closely related, easy to build, and
the
> > sort of unpredictable theoretical discovery that could come at any
> > time.)
> 
>	  There is another book called Gilpin's Space by Reginald
Brentnor,
>	  where one simple discovery yields a device that will
>	  turn any submarine into a starship, especially a
>	  small one like Alvin.

Also a book called THE DALETH EFFECT, where a Swedish submarine rescues
a bunch of cosmonaut trapped on the Moon (poor fellows thought they were
hallucinating from anoxia when the thing came over the horizon).