The GZG Digest V2 #1761

> A similar idea I had for these a while back (bear in mind that I have

I saw "The Moat around Murcheson's Eye" and thought there might be a THIRD
mote book I hadn't read. Unfortunately, "The Moat..." turns out to be the book
published as "The Gripping Hand" here in the States. Drat!
:-)

> I saw "The Moat around Murcheson's Eye" and thought there might be a
:-)

They do have a little space combat in some of teh Warworld books that Dr
Pournelle put out

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:42:00 -0400 "laserlight@quixnet.net"
> <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> I saw "The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye" and thought there might be a
Drat! :-) <

What I'd like to read is the "lost" chapters from TMiGE (which, BTW, Niven
wanted to call "The Mote in Murcheson's Eye") featuring the battle for New
Chicago... It was cut for space reasons (oh, frak! Pardon the pun...) but it
would have been entertaining to see the MacArthur in action under Bruno
Cziller.

> They do have a little space combat in some of teh Warworld books that

Are they Empire/Mote books? Something to do with the Saurons?

Phil, who has a sort of semi-EoM fleet based heavily on the ESU stuff
with wings and BCs made from Warsaws and NAC BC/BB rear hulls...
Nothing bigger than a BC yet, though.
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> What I'd like to read is the "lost" chapters from TMiGE (which, BTW,
Pardon the pun...) but it would have been entertaining to see the MacArthur in
action under Bruno Cziller.

This was, IIRC, in "N Space" which you'll probably find under Niven.

> They do have a little space combat in some of the Warworld books that

Dr Pournelle put out. <

> Are they Empire/Mote books? Something to do with the Saurons?

Yes, a Sauron unit settles on a remote Empire world and has to deal with the
existing settlements. The series as a whole suffers, IMHO, from the "my group
is deadlier and cooler than your group" syndrome, but some of the individual
stories are very good.

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:55:57AM -0400, laserlight@quixnet.net wrote:

> This was, IIRC, in "N Space" which you'll probably find under Niven.

I believe not. That collection _does_ have _Building the Mote in God's
Eye_ (as does Pournelle's _A Step Farther Out_); but the cut material
within that essay ("Motelight") is not the space battle sequence, but rather
earlier material dealing with the arrival of light from the Mote.