Re: Mainstream Writers who dabbled in SF

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Carnegie 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John M. Gamble
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > aRJay  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert
> > Carnegie
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > 9.154.205>, Don D'Ammassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > writes
> > > > > Ditto David Bergantino.  In Venus Development, he moves Venus
> > > > > to a more pleasant orbit by landing hundreds of spaceships on
> > > > > one side of the planet, then turning on all their thrusters at once
> > > > > to push the planet into its new orbit.
> > > >
> > > > If you're E. E. 'Doc' Smith, that's a plan.
> > > Larry Niven only needed one ship using the basics of this idea to
> > > re-arrange the solar system.
> >
> > For some definitions of "ship".
>
> Hang on.  I know the Niven short where the guy's big idea to
> maximise the crew's expected survival is to make the tide-locked
> future Earth habitable by restarting its rotation and recovering the
> frozen air and water from the night-side.  But this isn't that?
No this is the ship/drive from _A World out of Time_ that is dropped in 
Neptune's atmosphere which it uses for fusion fuel, given enough time 
they fly Neptune around to change orbits of other planets.
--
aRJay
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