Submarines in space

> At 10:07 PM 9/28/98 -0500, Noah wrote:

I think you just described the "Botany Bay" -- Khan's ship in the
original Star Trek episode.

:)

I did? Well, I'll be... I first remember hearing the idea thrown around in an
S.M. Stirling novel, 'The Stone Dogs', I think. The Drakans & The Allies were
busy converting their sub production facilities to spacecraft production
facilities.

Noah

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In a book called SALVAGE AND DESTROY (can't remember the author), a scout for
an extremely stable, ancient galactic civilization decides that Earth must be
destroyed because of our aggressive nature and (more importantly) the fact
that the U.S. and Soviet sub forces would provide
us with a ready-made war fleet as soon as we discovered FTL and
anti-grav (apparently these were closely related, easy to build, and the
sort of unpredictable theoretical discovery that could come at any time.)

> Jonathan Jarrard wrote:

> Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:

Also a book called THE DALETH EFFECT, where a Swedish submarine rescues a
bunch of cosmonaut trapped on the Moon (poor fellows thought they were
hallucinating from anoxia when the thing came over the horizon).