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"The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Tacspace | ||
| An augmented representation of space battles. |
| She flitted between the real-as-it-could-be view shown by the deep-space scan sensors, where the stars were bunched hard blue-white in a circle ahead and collected into a fuzzy red pool behind with pure blackness in every other direction, and the dark abstraction that was Tacspace, a multi-lined and -radiused sphere where the ships of the fleet sat, little stylized arrowhead shapes of varying sizes and colors, a line of fading dots behind each indicating their courses, green glowing identities and status codes riding alongside them... |
| Technovelgy from The Algebraist,
by Iain M Banks. Published by Orbit in 2004 Additional resources -
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I'm assuming that the term is a contraction of Tactical Space.
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