Space Dreadnoughts

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 “Allamagoosa” (1955) by Eric Frank Russell (won the Hugo Award for best short story in 1955)

 “A Question of Courage” (1960) by J. F. Bone

 “Superiority” (1951) by Arthur C. Clarke

 “Hindsight” (1940) by Jack Williamson

 “Shadow on the Stars” (1954) by Algis Budrys

 “Time Lag” (1961) by Poul Anderson

 “The Last Battalion” (1977) by David Drake

One of the problems with figuring out how ships are going to fight in space (assuming that we have ships in space, which isn’t as likely as I wish; and, that we’re still fighting when we get there, which is unfortunately more probable) is that there are a lot of maritime models to choose from. 

It’s also true that some of the maritime models came from very specialized sets of circumstances; and a few of them weren’t particularly good ideas even in their own time.

And it’s also true that some of the writers applying the models have a better grasp of the essentials than others. That isn’t limited to writers of fiction. For example, I recall two essays which were originally published about fifty years ago in Astounding. 

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