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"We'd have most of what we predicted of the conquest of space, if we hadn't ignored parasite control."
- Larry Niven
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| Jump Drive | ||
| A means of propulsion used on spacecraft that allows a ship to travel from point to distant point without actually needing to traverse the space in between. |
| "You've killed us both," Mikah said with his face strained and white but his voice under control.
"Not quite," Jason told him cheerily. "But I have killed the jump control so we can't get to another star. However there's nothing wrong with our space drive, so we can make a landing on one of the planets—you saw for yourself that there is at least one suitable for habitation." "Where I will fix the jump drive and continue the voyage to Cassylia. You will have gained nothing." "Perhaps," Jason answered in his most noncommittal voice |
| Technovelgy from Ethical Engineer,
by Harry Harrison. Published by Analog in 1963 Additional resources -
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This term derives from earlier work by writers like Isaac Asimov, who wrote about the jump through hyperspace.
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