Timeline for What is the "Kzinti Lesson" from Larry Niven's Ringworld?
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| Mar 28, 2022 at 23:37 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | @dmckee I assume you meant to say Louis goes the wrong way in the 1st edition of Ringworld. ;) | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 2:10 | comment | added | Adamant | Forget about exhaust, the whole spaceship is a potential weapon if going that fast, however it gets up to that speed. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 2:04 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @Adamant The set-up relies on two things. Firstly that the Kzin use reactionless drives for all stages of space-flight (so no practical experience with mitiigating the risks of drive reaction plumes) and secondly that their telepaths assure them that these prey are disarmed by choice. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 1:10 | comment | added | Adamant | I don't see how essentially any species capable of space flight, let alone interstellar space flight, could not realize this. | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 18:36 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | @dmckee - No, I think it's the 1970 1st edition paperback that has the errors. The 1st edition hardcover was printed in 1977. | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 3:50 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @neilfein Just noticed (years late) that you quoted the 1st edition. Does that mean you have one with Bey traveling the wrong direction to stay ahead of midnight? You lucky dog. | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 13:27 | vote | accept | BrianClayton | ||
| Mar 14, 2012 at 1:58 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | Warning: Do not click on this TV Tropes link. Weaponized Exhaust | |
| Mar 14, 2012 at 1:57 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @neilfein: Yes...Bey's ship in "Neutron Star" (1966) might bring it up, and then there is "The Ethics of Madness" (1967), but I can't recall anything before Ringworld with certainty. | |
| Mar 14, 2012 at 1:49 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | While the Kzinti Lesson isn't mentioned by name (or even paraphrased) in "The Warriors", it shows up in the 1970 novel Ringworld: "A reaction drive is a weapon, powerful in direct ratio to its efficiency." (p.87, first ed. HC, 1977) However, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it were mentioned in the Beowulf Schaeffer stories since the character was prone to chattiness about factoids like this. (1966-1967, 1975) | |
| Mar 14, 2012 at 1:46 | history | edited | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 14, 2012 at 1:45 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @MarthaF. I presume that "it" is "The Warriors"? An oddity of copyright law results in the collection not giving that data, but by concern was when the phrase "the Kzinti lesson" first appears. | |
| Mar 14, 2012 at 1:39 | history | edited | Goodbye Stack Exchange | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 14, 2012 at 0:04 | comment | added | Martha F. | According to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Kzin_Wars#The_stories) it first appeared in If magazine in 1966. It's probably easiest to find in The Man-Kzin Wars (the first book of short stories). | |
| Mar 13, 2012 at 15:04 | history | edited | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 13, 2012 at 14:59 | history | answered | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | CC BY-SA 3.0 |