There’s a sequence in a Larry Niven book where a ship sees some missiles inbound from across a solar system. In order to avoid them, they have to spend several hours at high-G thrust, nearly killing a bunch of the crew. It’s a long, slow chapter of high tension, it obeys the laws of physics, and it’s excellent.
I love the space battles in the early Expanse books. They are essentially
There’s a ship visible several thousand kilometers away…
Shit, they’ve armed weapons
Firing countermeasures
They will pass in 30 seconds at an appreciable fraction of C
BRAAAAAAAAP
battle over
There’s a sequence in a Larry Niven book where a ship sees some missiles inbound from across a solar system. In order to avoid them, they have to spend several hours at high-G thrust, nearly killing a bunch of the crew. It’s a long, slow chapter of high tension, it obeys the laws of physics, and it’s excellent.
PDCs engaged!