[TML] Motivational Poster of the Day

[Richard Aiken]

On 10/9/07, shadow at shadowgard.com <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> > Well, lasers aren't exactly rifled, are they?
>
> Show the average person a "longarm" and they'll call it a rifle.

Which author was it who had a relatively recent series where Venus is
both habitable and the only really high-tech human world?  David
Drake?  "Igniting The Reaches" was one title, I think.

Anyway, I really liked the energy weapons in those books.  They were
plasma guns; literally heavy, slow-firing (due to both capacitor and
heat issues) and with a recoil serious enough that only really big
guys could easily use them.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein