I thought this might be of interest to some:
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=29297
Pax Orionis is an alternate history project based on a simple idea: what if Project Orion had come to pass?
I have been working on a non-fiction book on nuclear pulse propulsion for a long, long time. A few years ago it occurred to me to write small fictional vignettes to describe various aspects of the Orion program. The first little story told the tale of a fleet of “Orion Space Battleships” going to war. It became clear to me that the idea wasn’t going to work… I simply couldn’t tell a meaningful tale in just a few paragraphs. But several people suggested that I should turn the short yarn into a full-fledged story. And so… here we are.
“Cuba” tells the story of how history as we know it changed into a new history that was primed to produce spacecraft powered by atom bombs…
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=29297
Pax Orionis is an alternate history project based on a simple idea: what if Project Orion had come to pass?
I have been working on a non-fiction book on nuclear pulse propulsion for a long, long time. A few years ago it occurred to me to write small fictional vignettes to describe various aspects of the Orion program. The first little story told the tale of a fleet of “Orion Space Battleships” going to war. It became clear to me that the idea wasn’t going to work… I simply couldn’t tell a meaningful tale in just a few paragraphs. But several people suggested that I should turn the short yarn into a full-fledged story. And so… here we are.
“Cuba” tells the story of how history as we know it changed into a new history that was primed to produce spacecraft powered by atom bombs…