The flight of the dragonfly

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• curtis · Oct 8, 2017 · Recommends

  I think all of Robert Forward's stuff would qualify. My favorites are Rocheworld (AKA The Flight of the Dragonfly) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocheworld and Dragon's Egg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg

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• chiph · Feb 22, 2016 · Mentions

  Physicist Robert L. Forward mentioned it in his book Rocheworld (later republished as The Flight of the Dragonfly)in the early 1980's, with the concept work being done in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail#Interstellar_flight

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• T-A · Nov 1, 2016 · Mentions

  …on future physics discoveries (maybe involving wormholes?). That's fine as long as there is no obvious contradiction of known physics. The really hard way though is to do what Robert Forward did in "Flight of the Dragonfly [1]: it includes 30+ pages and 12 figures with technical details. He worked it all out at the level of a real mission proposal. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocheworld

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• falcolas · Feb 22, 2016 · Mentions

  In the story "Flight of the Dragonfly", which used the same propulsion system, they simply detached a portion of the sail, and used it to reflect the beam back at the spacecraft to decelerate it.

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• arethuza · Feb 16, 2015 · Mentions

  It was "The Flight of the Dragonfly". One the other hand the same reviewer described the aliens in the novel as being Californian surfers....

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