![]() The speculative fiction novel Anathem by Neal Stephenson features a spacecraft that travels between different dimensions and uses an Orion-style propulsion system.Kube-McDowell in Emprise, the first book of the Trigon Disunity series. In the book The Shiva Option by David Weber and Steve White, an arachnid homeworld is destroyed by converting several asteroids into Orion-drive starships and launching them at it.The drive itself features as an improvised weapon in the book, being used to keep other ships at a distance. Stirling, Orion spacecraft are created during an arms race between the Domination of the Draka and the Alliance for Democracy, and used by both sides in their explorations of the solar system and as warships. Poul Anderson's novel Orion Shall Rise features a post-collapse confederation gathering forbidden nuclear materials for some unknown end-although the title gives away the true nature of their mysterious project.However, this craft uses non-nuclear explosives. In the novel King David's Spaceship by Jerry Pournelle inhabitants of a planet that is to be re-admitted to the Empire plot to build the spaceship based on an Orion project concept in order to qualify their planet as a higher-developed, Class One Imperial world.In the face of an alien siege/invasion of Earth, the humans must resort to drastic measures to get a fighting ship into orbit to face the alien fleet. An Orion spaceship features prominently in the science fiction novel Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.Clarke has references to the Orion drive. The final vehicle did not use this idea since Stanley Kubrick decided that showing the ship accelerate by a 'put-put' method might be "too comic" for film, as well as the fact that it might be seen as him having embraced nuclear weapons after his prior film, Dr. Early versions of 2001: A Space Odyssey featured a version of the spaceship Discovery One using this drive.A crewed mission to Venus on a ship using Orion-like photon engine is a core of 1960 science fiction novel The Land of Crimson Clouds, written by the Strugatsky brothers.In the story the past atomic war was an interstellar war fought between humans and hostile aliens from another star somewhere between 8 years before. In this novel there is a post-atomic-war interplanetary empire called the Empire of Lynn that uses Orion-type nuclear rockets for interplanetary spaceflight. An early appearance of an Orion-style nuclear pulse propelled rocket in science fiction was in the science fiction novel Empire of the Atom written by A.Its spacetime-warp drive cannot be used near planets, so the ship would leave Earth by feeding pellets into a "critical mass chamber" of 20 Mohs hardness. MacDonald, involves the development of a hybrid interstellar ship. The 1951 novel Wine of the Dreamers, by John D.Heinlein's 1940 short story " Blowups Happen" mentions powering spaceships with nuclear bombs. ![]() ![]() They reach Bronson Beta and Bronson Alpha destroys Earth. Fortunately, an alloy is found just in time and in sufficient abundance to build two Space Ships. No known metal can contain the atomic reaction. The problem is the extreme heat from the atomic reactor. The Space Ship will carry 100 persons along with animals, seeds, books, etc. To escape the doomed Earth, an atomic rocket is planned based on recent discoveries in atomic science. The smallest one, Bronson Beta, is thought to be habitable. The biggest one, named Bronson Alpha, a kind of giant gas planet, is on collision course with Earth. Two rogue planets cause chaos when they enter the solar system. From 1932 to 1933, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer wrote " When Worlds Collide".Nuclear pulse propulsion is a common feature of hard science fiction stories, as the idea offers high thrust and/or high specific impulse drives without requiring new physics.
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