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However, in scifi space battles Not all scifi space battles. Just the battles in bad scifi. Movies seem prone to this. I suspect because making what we thin
by bdunbar 14y ago
However, in scifi space battles
Not all scifi space battles. Just the battles in bad scifi.
Movies seem prone to this. I suspect because making what we think will be realistic space combat visually appealing and easy to follow would be super hard.
Fiction that gets space combat right (off the top of my head) include Stirlings 'Stone Dogs', and Vinge's 'Deepness in the Sky'.
- EdwardCoffin 14y agoVinge's Marooned in Realtime has some neat ideas for space combat too. I think that Niven and Pournelle's book The Mote in God's Eye had some interesting ideas. As I recall, space combat involved spherical vessels pouring energy into each others' shields with heavy lasers. The first one to overload the others' shield won.
- bdunbar 14y agoI should have remembered 'Mote', thank you. The first one to overload the others' shield won. Lasers, nuclear-tipped torpedos, all add to the energy budget. Pent up energy cascades _in_ when your field collapses. 'Brenda' by Larry Niven, set in the CoDo Universe, has as it's backstory the cleanup job after a really large fleet engagement.