On 9/28/2017 11:34 AM, C. Berry wrote:
> Smith did something like this in one of the later "Lensman" books. The
> good guys found two planets with large and opposite momenta with respect
> to the target bad-guy world, installed ginormous inertialess drives on
> each of them, maneuvered them into position on either side of the target
> world, and then turned off the drive. Even at 15, this struck me as
> being just a teeny bit over the top, but it got the job done. :)

"Doc" Smith /defined/ "over the top" (and/or "it's the only way to be
sure") for a generation of SF.  :)

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