Re:[FT] Boarding Torpedo
From: "Matt Tope" <mptope@o...>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 14:48:07 +0100
Subject: Re:[FT] Boarding Torpedo
Laserlight wrote:
>MattT said:
>>Don't worry Germ, I'm beyond salvation on this sort of thing anyway,
the
MT
>>style missiles one of my fleets uses have the brains of
political/military
>>prisoners in place of standard guidance computers.
>You've read Saberhagen's "Wings out of Shadow"?
Nope, afraid not. It just seemed a logical extension of Soviet/Red Army
WW2
style Penal Battalions applied to a Ultra Hardline Communist Military
super
state 1600 years in the future.
I haven't actually heard of, let alone read, anything by Saberhagen
(much
embarressed foot shuffling on my part). Is it any good? Sounds like it's
worth getting hold of!
Regards
Matt Tope