Re: Project Orion
Dan Clemmensen (Dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:48:38 -0400
John K Clark wrote:
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> Idea for a science fiction novel: A huge nickel iron asteroid is heading for
> Earth, it would take a 200,000 megaton bomb to divert it but no existing
> rocket is nearly powerful enough to deliver such a huge payload to the
> asteroid. The Earth seems doomed, then our hero remembers Project Orion.
>
Try
"Orion Shall Rise", by Poul Anderson, 1983, ISBN 0-671-46492-2
or
"Footfall", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle ,1985(?), ISBN: 0345323440
In both cases, the heros remember Orion and save the world, more or less.