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Or onto a collision course with a different inhabited planet. Who interprets it as an act of war. This whole comments section is making me want to read some s

Or onto a collision course with a different inhabited planet. Who interprets it as an act of war. This whole comments section is making me want to read some scifi about this. Anybody have any recommendations?

Nicholas_C 11y ago
Mix Starship Troopers with The Forever War.
monochromatic 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_Games There's some rock throwing in this latest book in the Expanse series. You'd want to read the earlier books beforehand though. (They are worth reading anyway.)
petitmiam 11y ago
Arthur C. Clarke's 'The Hammer of God'
Mithaldu 11y ago
There is some super nice rock throwing in this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prador_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prador_Moon
dmckeon 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Harlequin%27s_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Harlequin%27s_Moon suspended animation interspersed with patiently building a habitable environment out of asteroids & comets.
stevewilhelm 11y ago
Neal Stephenson's 2015 speculative fiction novel 'Seveneves.'
piotrkaminski 11y ago
The last book of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_F._Flynn#Firestar_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_F._Flynn#Firestar_seri... is all about deflecting asteroids, IIRC.
beilabs 11y ago
Starship Troopers covered it pretty well "Thirty years before the First Interstellar War, a meteorite from Klendathu System was deviated from its star during the Operation Fedmil, the first contact in Klendathu. Thirty years later, the meteorite reached and hit Earth, destroying Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, killing over 8.7 Million, and wounding a further 12.5 million." "However, the United Citizen Federation claimed that the Arachnid launching a "Bug Meteor" by Bug Plasma from the Klendathu system towards Earth and destroyed the city of Buenos Aires."

Nicholas_C 11y ago

Mix Starship Troopers with The Forever War.

monochromatic 11y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_Games There's some rock throwing in this latest book in the Expanse series. You'd want to read the earlier books beforehand though. (They are worth reading anyway.)

petitmiam 11y ago

Arthur C. Clarke's 'The Hammer of God'

Mithaldu 11y ago

There is some super nice rock throwing in this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prador_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prador_Moon

dmckeon 11y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Harlequin%27s_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Harlequin%27s_Moon suspended animation interspersed with patiently building a habitable environment out of asteroids & comets.

stevewilhelm 11y ago

Neal Stephenson's 2015 speculative fiction novel 'Seveneves.'

piotrkaminski 11y ago

The last book of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_F._Flynn#Firestar_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_F._Flynn#Firestar_seri... is all about deflecting asteroids, IIRC.

beilabs 11y ago

Starship Troopers covered it pretty well "Thirty years before the First Interstellar War, a meteorite from Klendathu System was deviated from its star during the Operation Fedmil, the first contact in Klendathu. Thirty years later, the meteorite reached and hit Earth, destroying Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, killing over 8.7 Million, and wounding a further 12.5 million." "However, the United Citizen Federation claimed that the Arachnid launching a "Bug Meteor" by Bug Plasma from the Klendathu system towards Earth and destroyed the city of Buenos Aires."