Re: Mainstream Writers who dabbled in SF

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Don
D'Ammassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
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>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.

 In L. Neil Smith's _The Venus Belt_ a group of libertarian
entrepreneurs led by the President of the United States (a gorilla, not
a chimp) smash Ceres into Venus at high speed to turn it into an
asteroid belt which is much more useable as living space etc. than the
current planet.
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