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Re:Project Orion by Arrath on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:13PM (#35187785)
I very much have a soft spot for Footfall. Sending up a battleship kludged into an Orion style ship to battle alien invaders is just so cool.
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Re:Project Orion by variaga on Thursday March 16, 2023 @06:24PM (#35189699)
I haven't read that book in 30 years, but the description of experiencing the launch from inside the craft was so succinct and evocative I still think about it from time to time.

"God was knocking and he wanted in bad."

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Re:Project Orion by vhodges on Thursday March 16, 2023 @06:52PM (#35190053)
One of my favourite lines ever! Note, it wasn't from the perspective of inside the craft but rather the towns people huddled in a bunker in Bellingham.
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