Just to let everyone know, the first edition of The Woggle-Bug Press reprint of Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope is now officially out of print. However, a...
As you all know, David Baumann, Mike Dodd and myself have been working on the Starman books since June of 1998. The Starman books are not all we've been...
Dear friends of the Starman series, The seventh book in the series, Under the Red Sun, continues to develop. Here is a section of chapter 15: A distant...
Just wanted to let everyone know that 81 copies of the AWB edition of Mutiny on Mars have been ordered! The book will go to press when 100 copies have been...
... Don't you mean "whichever occurs first"? Because as your statement stands, if it never reaches 100 orders, NO copies would EVER be shipped! :o --...
... That's right! If it never reaches 100 orders, no copies will ever be shipped. The book will be printed when 100 orders are reached or when Sept 15 comes,...
Isn't that rather hard on the person who places an order and is then left dangling, waiting for his order to arrive? Most people place orders in the ...
... Actually their customers don't mind at all - Mutiny on Mars is not the first book they've offered. AWB specializes in reprinting old books that just aren't...
[snip] ... [/snip] What about after 100 copies? Do they only print in increments of 100 such that for the second 100 people order (copies 101 through 200) they...
David Ethell
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Aug 16, 2004 6:23 pm
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... For a first edition AWB requires at least 100 books; after that they are flexible to some extent. We could have told them to print Mutiny on Mars the...
... Hopefully it'll reach 100 in time, as my copy might then arrive in time for my birthday (24th)... I finally started reading my copy of the AuthorHouse...
... A nice "pick-off", but, scientifically, I think there's an easy answer to this one. That said, you bring up an interesting point -- just not quite the one...
Your argument is reasonable IF the laser is powerful enough to do such damage. I have my doubts that a weapon that powerful would be made. I think it more...
... I've had a mild form of dyscalculia since my stroke two and a half years ago, but in this case it seems that I got the value correct but misplaced the...
... 'Twas Smith, in his LENSMAN series. Primary beams were ships' main armament; they were produced by overloading a normal ray-projector to the point of ...
... Then it cannot be destructive. Some of the energy must be ABSORBED by the target for the target to be affected by the energy; that is, it must be at least...
... (*sigh*) I realized that someone would undoubtedly raise this point about ten seconds after I clicked SEND. Without getting into specifics, suffice to say...
Agreed. It is then a battle between one side trying to build more powerful lasers and the other side trying to add more "9's" to their 99.99999% reflective...
Wow, it has been energizing (pun intended) to read the recent postings on this board. It's been quiet here for too long. I really liked Valerie's comments are...
... Precisely my (indirect) point: you used words suggesting transparency, when in fact you meant translucency. :) ... Hmmmmm... I have NO idea how we got...
... I do not believe this is feasible, for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that water tends to absorb light, which is why the oceans, below a certain...
Poking around the net, I found a few links to futuristic weapons that I found interesting. The third link is a pentagon report about underwater lasers. The...
[snip] The first problem is that the whole point of a laser weapon is to damage an object or being by way of heat. But water is a COOLANT. It is -- to use Hal ...
David Ethell
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Aug 20, 2004 2:07 pm
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... Thanks for the post! Those are interesting indeed - they made for good reading! They definitely gave me some ideas. Fascinating! --Jon Cooper...
Hi Glenn! You raised several issues with underwater use of lasers: 1) Absorption of the light by the water 2) Dissipation of heat from the target by the water ...
Valerie Kramer wrote: The simplest way I can think of to deal with this issue is to make the beam really, really powerful for a really, really short time. Then...
... This is similar to the principle behind the "ablative armor" now used on tanks. You have an expendable layer of armor that takes the brunt of the impact...
... It was a popular trope in SF of the 1950s. It also started with the observation by Johannes Kepler that Heinlein, to his credit, actually quoted: "Inter...
... I agree, they sound VERY interesting. Can't afford that third report, though. Nota Bene, however, that the "blurb" SEEMS to suggest that the high-powered ...
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