Venus Equilateral

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• jloughry · Sep 8, 2018 · Recommends

  George O. Smith's Venus Equilateral stories from 1942–1945 are wonderful—if you like the idea of vacuum tube technology taken to extreme lengths. Lots of fun in those stories for engineers and hackers: spaceships that can accelerate at…

  on “Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction” ↗
• FiatLuxDave · Jun 21, 2018 · Recommends

  …of these two, since they both completely qualify as underrated: A) "Psychohistorical Crisis" by Donald Kingsbury, which is an unauthorized sequel set in the world of Asimov's Foundation Series. B) "Venus Equilateral" by George O. Smith, which is an old, rather cheesy sci-fi novel from the 1940s, which is basically a bunch of engineers on a communications space station fighting lawyers, bureaucracy, and space pirates…

  on “Ask HN: What’s your most underrated sci fi favorite book?” ↗
• kcartlidge · May 21, 2023 · Recommends

  …novel" - Necrotech by KC Alexander, a brutal and obscene body-mod cyberpunk dystopia (the sequel of which, Nanoshock, has a superbly offensive opening sentence) And a couple of guilty pleasures: - Venus Equilateral by George O Smith, 1940s stories based around a three mile long space station at the L4 point in space, a bit like Babylon 5 meets DS9 in the era of vacuum tubes - Bio of a Space Tyrant by Piers Anthony,…

  on “Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?” ↗
• FiatLuxDave · Feb 24, 2017 · Mentions

  …lucky enough as a kid to inherit my grandfather's collection of old sci-fi books. I first became aware of Q codes through the short story "QRM Interplanetary" from 1942 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Equilateral). I find it interesting that Q codes have changed so little over the last century. I have some ham radio friends who will use Q codes when talking face-to-face with each other, and the codes they use…

  on “How efficiently does Morse code encode letters?” ↗