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5 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid entertainment
This book is well worth getting *just* for the story "Lost in Translation", which I've read several times already. The rest of the stories are frosting on the cake.
Published on December 27, 1999 by Geoffrey Kidd
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Skim it for the ideas, skip the fiction
I particularly enjoyed straight essays such as "Vehicles for Future Wars", especially the section on the feasibility of vehicular evasion of orbital lasers. He's done the numbers, has a great argument I'd not heard. The discussion of the implications of increasing payload fraction was interesting, too. However, as much as I tried, I couldn't bring myself...
Published on June 15, 2000 by Russell Whitaker
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Skim it for the ideas, skip the fiction,
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This review is from: Firefight Y2K (Mass Market Paperback)
I particularly enjoyed straight essays such as "Vehicles for Future Wars", especially the section on the feasibility of vehicular evasion of orbital lasers. He's done the numbers, has a great argument I'd not heard. The discussion of the implications of increasing payload fraction was interesting, too.However, as much as I tried, I couldn't bring myself to finish the short stories. I read several, couldn't bring myself to finish the rest.
5 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid entertainment,
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This review is from: Firefight Y2K (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is well worth getting *just* for the story "Lost in Translation", which I've read several times already. The rest of the stories are frosting on the cake.
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Firefight Y2K by Dean Ing (Mass Market Paperback - January 1, 2000)
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