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Anderson Drive
Post by Lord Skimper   » Thu Sep 21, 2017 1:24 am

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A While ago, 25 years, My Dad, no longer alive, borrowed a book from me and was talking about a great storey Scify, in which an Anderson drive is mentioned. He lost the book in Italy and I've been trying to figure out what story he was talking about. Any Ideas?
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Re: Anderson Drive
Post by Robert_A_Woodward   » Thu Sep 21, 2017 1:31 am

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Lord Skimper wrote:A While ago, 25 years, My Dad, no longer alive, borrowed a book from me and was talking about a great storey Scify, in which an Anderson drive is mentioned. He lost the book in Italy and I've been trying to figure out what story he was talking about. Any Ideas?


Are you sure it wasn't an Alderson drive? In that case it would be Jerry Pournelle's future history. _Mote in God's Eye_ (co-written by Larry Niven) is the most likely. However, see <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?735> (however, ignore the references to Laurie Jo Hensen - IMHO, including those stories is an error)
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Re: Anderson Drive
Post by Lord Skimper   » Thu Sep 21, 2017 2:58 am

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Alderson Drive, that would explain why I could never find Anderson drive online.

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Re: Anderson Drive
Post by Joat42   » Thu Sep 21, 2017 1:57 pm

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Robert_A_Woodward wrote:
Lord Skimper wrote:A While ago, 25 years, My Dad, no longer alive, borrowed a book from me and was talking about a great storey Scify, in which an Anderson drive is mentioned. He lost the book in Italy and I've been trying to figure out what story he was talking about. Any Ideas?


Are you sure it wasn't an Alderson drive? In that case it would be Jerry Pournelle's future history. _Mote in God's Eye_ (co-written by Larry Niven) is the most likely. However, see <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?735> (however, ignore the references to Laurie Jo Hensen - IMHO, including those stories is an error)

I want one of those coffee-makers mentioned in the book....

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Re: Anderson Drive
Post by Lord Skimper   » Sat Sep 23, 2017 12:20 am

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The book was most likely There will be war anthology of short Scify war stories.
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