Re: Strategic Thrust using BR25

>On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:
>
>> Thomas Anderson wrote:
>>
>> > that's "the songs of distant earth", to be pedantic about plurals 
:-).
>> > 
>> > or vernor vinge's "long shot", which is a short story and as such 
is more
>> > to the point about seeding, with less space elevators, etc.
>> 
>>	Ummmm, my memory must be going.  I don't remember
>>	any space elevators in TSODE, just seed ships and
>>	zero point energy stardrives.
>
>the Magellan uses a space elevator (of the non-synchronous type, iirc) 
to
>lift ice from the planet's surface to orbit, to repair its dust shield.
>there's a scene where Kumar (iirc), one of the characters, is sitting 
on
>an ice block when it gets lifted, and consequently dies of vacuum
>exposure.
>
>>	There *was* a space elevator in THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE.
>
>now that you come to mention it, yes there was :-). in fact, there is 
in
>most of clarke's later stories.
>
>Tom

Niven's newest book, RAINBOW MARS, has a beanstalk as well...a literal 
one in this case!  The book is part of the "Svetz" time travel stories 
("There's a Wolf In My Time Machine", et al.).	It's a fun book; Niven 
uses the martians of Wells, Weinbaum, Burroughs, and a bunch of others	
to populate his Mars.  It's not his best work--I'm still waiting for 
DOWN IN FLAMES to actually be written--but it's still Niven.

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