• [tor dot com] Five SF Stories That Mix Swords and Starships

    From jessica torrento@21:1/5 to Thomas Koenig on Thu Dec 3 03:20:02 2020
    On Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 16:46:27 UTC+5:30, Thomas Koenig wrote:
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    Steve Coltrin <spco...@omcl.org> schrieb:
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    djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) writes:

    It has been so long since I read that book that I have to ask:

    They used swords in _Dune_?

    Swords and knives. There's ubiquitous personal defensive systems that
    are impervious to most projectile weapons and that present quite
    severe disincentives to using energy weapons.

    I always found that part dodgy. If you have a personal energy
    shield that keeps fast objects from going in, why wouldn't everybody
    use that, plus medieval knight-type armor? If you make that out
    of any sort of advanced material, you'd be pretty much invulnerable
    on a battlefield.

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