Timeline for Scifi novel where Earth is run by females
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| Oct 21 at 6:02 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | Sinclair monofilament features in several of Niven's Known Space stories. IIRC, its first appearance is in a short story set on Earth, where an imprisoned Belter (Gil Hamilton?) uses it to escape. In the Ringworld stories, it's a room temperature superconductor, but I can't remember if it had that property in the earlier stories. | |
| Oct 21 at 1:36 | comment | added | Andrew | Thanks- time for a reread, I guess | |
| Oct 21 at 0:40 | comment | added | workerjoe | It's not called monofilament in World Out Of Time, but their "thread" is very strong and practically invisible. and one character, helping the MC, uses it as a weapon to cut limbs and heads off of his pursuers. In one of those weird coincidences, I just read that book a few days ago and then saw this question posted. | |
| Oct 20 at 23:27 | comment | added | Andrew | Yeah, the monofilament doesn't show up in World Out of Time (IIRC) | |
| Oct 20 at 23:07 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | @BrianGrenoble Are you sure you're not remembering the monofilament episode from Ringworld (also by Niven)? | |
| Oct 20 at 4:20 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | @BrianGrenoble Larry, not David. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Niven & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Niven | |
| Oct 19 at 19:38 | history | edited | Andrew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 19 at 19:33 | comment | added | moopet | There are underground train things connecting the continents iirc, and the woman is woken up when they start getting used again by the MC. They're separate to the transporters which serve a different plot purpose. | |
| Oct 19 at 19:29 | comment | added | Brian Grenoble | I remember the boys & they kidnapped our hero & got away from them using a spool of mono molecule filament set as a trap.... so when they chased him the filament chopped 'em up. Now i wonder just how badly my minor stroke of 15 yrs ago messed with my memory but i do thank you for reviving some long lost reading memories & i luv all David Nivven's works! | |
| Oct 19 at 18:33 | history | edited | Andrew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 19 at 18:27 | history | answered | Andrew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |