RE: Air dropped Units

I am thinking particularly of the air jeeps, air barges, and combat cars
in
THE ULLER UPRISING (Piper's replay of the Indian Mutiny), the
orbit-to-ground vehicles in SPACE VIKING, and (even though it was
actually
written by Tuning), the ad hoc air armada in FUZZY BONES.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Llaneza [mailto:maserati@flash.net]
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 7:39 PM
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: RE: Air dropped Units

At 1:08 PM -0400 9/15/00, Jarrard, Jonathan (J.) wrote:
>H. Beam Piper's novels also had heavy "contra-gravity" armored vehicles
>(some of which were closer to Barsoomian air-battleships than tanks).

Piper put a lot of interesting 'ground' forces material into Cosmic 
Computer. I especially liked his aircav mounts. Egg shaped vehicles 
with one man wedged in with machine guns and other nastiness. He had 
some tanks, and some larger vehicles with missiles and heavy cannon 
fore and aft.
-- 

Michael Carter Llaneza
Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1991-1950

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