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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 02/19/2006 : 14:48:51 [Permalink]
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Half said:
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For plot reasons, I need some kind of teleport portal that must be first transported by "conventional" means to distant locations. A hyperdrive starship would not fit my plot very well. I've decided to have it so a single corporation has developed the teleportation device, and the corporation holds the secret of its basic mechanism very closely.
This book, which I have recently read, uses a similiar plot device
Good book.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2006 : 15:06:50 [Permalink]
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Hawks hollered: quote:
Stephen Baxter used a teleport (quamtum entangled if I remember correctly) for transportation through vast distances in his novel "Space" (good book, by the way). Humans didn't even have to build the teleports, since extraterrestrial created them for a certain purpose aeons ago (and left the closest to Earth somewhere beyond Pluto).
Was that novel's full title, Manifold: Space, Hawks?
Dude cooed: quote:
This book, which I have recently read, uses a similiar plot device
Thanks, I've just put Spin State into my Amazon basket.
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 02/19/2006 : 19:10:23 [Permalink]
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Was that novel's full title, Manifold: Space, Hawks?
Nope, simply Space. Enjoy. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2006 : 19:37:52 [Permalink]
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So Hawks says: quote:
Nope, simply Space. Enjoy.
Looks like they have also been remarketing it as Manifold: Space, as part of a series. Same book descriptions. Will get it, thanks!
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2006 : 21:28:21 [Permalink]
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Baxter is an excellent writer. I've read a few of his books.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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