On Monday, November 27, 2023 at 8:20:57 PM UTC, James Nicoll wrote:
In article <c9acad26-8dc7-4714...@googlegroups.com>,
Andrew McDowell <mcdow...@sky.com> wrote:
This is unashamedly influenced by Ringworld and Rendezvous With Rama. >Although written within Nuttall's "Ark Royal" series, a good part of it
is the travels of our heroes through a Dyson Sphere, in the apparent >absence of its builders, but in the presence of a (pretty much) human >population of roughly a city-state level of political organisation.
with technology more primitive than this might suggest, because of lack
of resources, among other factors. I bought this partly just because
this style of plot is rare. I don't think that it measures up to its >illustrious models, but it's reasonably entertaining, and I quite like
the Ark Royal universe - I will probably buy the sequel, especially
after looking at the free sample, which suggests that there may be some >skullduggery as multiple human nations will bw investigating the
sphere.
Does this follow the rule that anyone encountering a megastructure
will be forced to walk across a lot of it?
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The locals seem to use canoes for travel between cities, so there is a good bit of canoeing as well as walking. They exit from the sphere via a specially designed contraption sent down (at some risk) from the main (star)ship of the expedition. Of course,
since it is a megastructure, "a lot of it" is true if measured in terms of hours spent travelling or sore feet but far from true on the scale of the megastructure.
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