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"I've taken some stick for passages in Altered Carbon which people complained had sickened them, but then violence should be sickening."
- Richard Morgan
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| Magship | ||
| A ship that uses magnetic fields to catch the solar wind for propulsion. |
| "Lieutenant," Jimmy turned on the younger pilot, "how should I angle the magnetic field against the solar wind to achieve an effect of negative solar gravity?"
"Not a clue," she said cheerfully. "...that's my whole point," Jimmy insisted. "Nothing she knows about rockets would prepare her to run a magship any better than me. And I do know the software and the theory." |
| From Falling Stars,
by Michael Flynn. Published by Tor in 1998 Additional resources -
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