[TML] Two-Space Traveller - Second Call

[Richard Aiken]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Jeff Zeitlin <jzeitlin at spamcop.net> wrote:
> Basically, though, it postulates an alternative method of interstellar
> travel that really is "Age of Sail", in a very literal sense, and
> because of the nature of the interstellar travel medium, technology is
> restricted to Victorian or pre-Victorian levels for interstellar use -
> and because of a knock-on effect defined by the authors, high-tech on a
> planet, while perfectly possible, is potentially extremely vulnerable to
> a TNE-type crash, so many planets elect 'retroculture' and voluntarily
> restrict even planetbound technology to pre-Great War levels.

I've just now cracked the books.  Seems interesting so far.  And I've
always liked Frankowski's (sp?) Conrad novels.  The concrete ship in
Fata Morgana is especially memorable.  I daydreamed about building my
own when I read about it (although I'd want a lakehouse . . . I
wouldn't want to have to cart it around on a trailer!).

-- 
Richard Aiken

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