Re: [OT] Alderson Drive

Phillip Atcliffe wrote:
> No web links or anything like that, but Niven and Pournelle once wrote
> an article for Galaxy which described the work behind a lot of the
> stuff in "A Mote in God's Eye", and what the characteristics of the
> Drive (which were vital to the story)

	The article is re-printed in the (sadly out of
	print) book A STEP FARTHER OUT by Jerry Pournelle.

	The idea was to make a plausible stardrive that would
	allow space battles.

	The jump points one sees in STARFIRE are probably
	"borrowed" from the Alderson drive.