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In the mid ‘70s I read a story, probably novella length as I remember it being in an anthology, about a stardrive with an unexpected side effect.
Plot details I remember:
During construction, the designer of the stardrive carried out frequent demonstrations of its primary effect, which was to reduce gravity.
Prior to the launch of the ship, there was an attempt to stop it. The man in charge of the project got the crew to board and be ready for launch, then remotely launched it destroying the launch complex and killing both himself and the group opposing the launch.
Despite being warned to stay strapped in, the stardrive designer got up for a drink of water and was killed when the ship launched.
On arriving at a suitable planet, they sent down a scout craft to look for a landing site. The pilot reported seeing something amazing at a particular location, but then contact was lost.
Shortly thereafter the ship’s drive kicked in automatically to avoid a collision with an unknown object.
The ship then landed at the location reported by the scout, but saw nothing unusual in the location, and started setting up a base.
The scout which was lost earlier was then spotted flying past and crashing, killing the pilot – on examining the crash site they could find no clue as to where he had been for the last few months.
Disheartened, they decide to return to Earth, but when they arrive they find an unpopulated primitive world. They finally realise that every time they used the stardrive they had travelled into the past.
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In the mid ‘70s I read a story, probably novella length as I remember it being in an anthology, about a stardrive with an unexpected side effect.
Plot details I remember:
During construction, the designer of the stardrive carried out frequent demonstrations of its primary effect, which was to reduce gravity.
Prior to the launch of the ship, there was an attempt to stop it. The man in charge of the project got the crew to board and be ready for launch, then remotely launched it destroying the launch complex and killing both himself and the group opposing the launch.
Despite being warned to stay strapped in, the stardrive designer got up for a drink of water and was killed when the ship launched.
On arriving at a suitable planet, they sent down a scout craft to look for a landing site. The pilot reported seeing something amazing at a particular location, but then contact was lost.
Shortly thereafter the ship’s drive kicked in automatically to avoid a collision with an unknown object.
The ship then landed at the location reported by the scout, but saw nothing unusual in the location, and started setting up a base.
The scout which was lost earlier was then spotted flying past and crashing, killing the pilot – on examining the crash site they could find no clue as to where he had been for the last few months.
Disheartened, they decide to return to Earth, but when they arrive they find an unpopulated primitive world. They finally realise that every time they used the stardrive they had travelled into the past.
story-identification time-travel novella
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In the mid ‘70s I read a story, probably novella length as I remember it being in an anthology, about a stardrive with an unexpected side effect.
Plot details I remember:
During construction, the designer of the stardrive carried out frequent demonstrations of its primary effect, which was to reduce gravity.
Prior to the launch of the ship, there was an attempt to stop it. The man in charge of the project got the crew to board and be ready for launch, then remotely launched it destroying the launch complex and killing both himself and the group opposing the launch.
Despite being warned to stay strapped in, the stardrive designer got up for a drink of water and was killed when the ship launched.
On arriving at a suitable planet, they sent down a scout craft to look for a landing site. The pilot reported seeing something amazing at a particular location, but then contact was lost.
Shortly thereafter the ship’s drive kicked in automatically to avoid a collision with an unknown object.
The ship then landed at the location reported by the scout, but saw nothing unusual in the location, and started setting up a base.
The scout which was lost earlier was then spotted flying past and crashing, killing the pilot – on examining the crash site they could find no clue as to where he had been for the last few months.
Disheartened, they decide to return to Earth, but when they arrive they find an unpopulated primitive world. They finally realise that every time they used the stardrive they had travelled into the past.
story-identification time-travel novella
asked 4 hours ago
Martin Goldsack
316111
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In the mid ‘70s I read a story, probably novella length as I remember it being in an anthology, about a stardrive with an unexpected side effect.
Plot details I remember:
During construction, the designer of the stardrive carried out frequent demonstrations of its primary effect, which was to reduce gravity.
Prior to the launch of the ship, there was an attempt to stop it. The man in charge of the project got the crew to board and be ready for launch, then remotely launched it destroying the launch complex and killing both himself and the group opposing the launch.
Despite being warned to stay strapped in, the stardrive designer got up for a drink of water and was killed when the ship launched.
On arriving at a suitable planet, they sent down a scout craft to look for a landing site. The pilot reported seeing something amazing at a particular location, but then contact was lost.
Shortly thereafter the ship’s drive kicked in automatically to avoid a collision with an unknown object.
The ship then landed at the location reported by the scout, but saw nothing unusual in the location, and started setting up a base.
The scout which was lost earlier was then spotted flying past and crashing, killing the pilot – on examining the crash site they could find no clue as to where he had been for the last few months.
Disheartened, they decide to return to Earth, but when they arrive they find an unpopulated primitive world. They finally realise that every time they used the stardrive they had travelled into the past.
story-identification time-travel novella
story-identification time-travel novella
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This is And All the Stars a Stage by James Blish, though there are some differences from your description.
In the book a starship is constructed using a newly discovered phenomenon called the Ertak Effect that allows FTL travel. Coincidentally it's also discovered the Sun is about to go nova, and the starships get away just in time. There are scenes of crowds mobbing the starships but I don't recall anyone dying because they got up for a drink of water.
The metallic insects are a positive match. The starship explores a world where members of the crew appear to be occasionally shot. It turns out that metallic insects are to blame:
Under the microscope the tiny creatures proved to resemble beetles more closely than they did gnats; and their rigid exoskeletons seemed to be made of something closely resembling tool steel. The wings under those impossible wing-cases had iron-sheathed venules; and the color in the blood of the creatures was provided by flecks of rust, which picked up and lost oxygen and energy by changing cyclically from ferrous to ferric oxides and —impossibly—back again. Nothing so heavy for its size could ever have flown, not even an inch.
They could not, indeed, be said to be true fliers, despite the wings. Instead, they hovered or travelled in the planet’s magnetic field. Such wing movements as they made set up eddy currents throughout the metal exoskeleton, which were promptly transformed into movement, at more than bullet-like velocities, along a line of magnetic force. The sudden slowing and veering motions which had been observed from the beginning were probably attributable to passage over local iron ore deposits.
The scene where they kill the monster is:
The engine snarled. The circling cloud turned glowing white and began to scream like a cyclone. By now, of course, the insects were all dead, but their metallic cores hurtled onward in the circling magnetic field.
Then Jorn snapped off one non-jumped switch. At the lakeside, history's longest, widest, densest column of white-hot grapeshot screamed straight out of the tunnel of wire. It struck the looming saurian at an angle.
Nevertheless, the monster vanished utterly. Nothing was left but boiling red water.
The book ends with the starships returning to Earth, and they have indeed travelled back in time but only to ancient Egyptian times.
answered 3 hours ago
John Rennie
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Wow, I guess all I remembered from this was the ending. Definitely going on my re-read list, who would have though Blish would be zapping dinosaurs.
– Organic Marble
1 hour ago
And all the Stars a Stage definitely isn't the one I'm looking for I'm afraid - though it is possible I confused the insects & saurian from it with the one I'm looking for. Also the Blish novel doesn't have time-travel - they leave from a distant planet that only at the end you find wasn't Earth.
– Martin Goldsack
20 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack Surely there can't be two stories with metallic insects being fired from a magnetic gun to kill a dinosaur? You must have conflated two different stories.
– John Rennie
16 mins ago
I've edited the plot description to remove those elements in case I have conflated them with the Blish novel
– Martin Goldsack
6 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack hmm, now making my answer look totally unrelated to your question. Thanks.
– John Rennie
1 min ago
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1 Answer
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This is And All the Stars a Stage by James Blish, though there are some differences from your description.
In the book a starship is constructed using a newly discovered phenomenon called the Ertak Effect that allows FTL travel. Coincidentally it's also discovered the Sun is about to go nova, and the starships get away just in time. There are scenes of crowds mobbing the starships but I don't recall anyone dying because they got up for a drink of water.
The metallic insects are a positive match. The starship explores a world where members of the crew appear to be occasionally shot. It turns out that metallic insects are to blame:
Under the microscope the tiny creatures proved to resemble beetles more closely than they did gnats; and their rigid exoskeletons seemed to be made of something closely resembling tool steel. The wings under those impossible wing-cases had iron-sheathed venules; and the color in the blood of the creatures was provided by flecks of rust, which picked up and lost oxygen and energy by changing cyclically from ferrous to ferric oxides and —impossibly—back again. Nothing so heavy for its size could ever have flown, not even an inch.
They could not, indeed, be said to be true fliers, despite the wings. Instead, they hovered or travelled in the planet’s magnetic field. Such wing movements as they made set up eddy currents throughout the metal exoskeleton, which were promptly transformed into movement, at more than bullet-like velocities, along a line of magnetic force. The sudden slowing and veering motions which had been observed from the beginning were probably attributable to passage over local iron ore deposits.
The scene where they kill the monster is:
The engine snarled. The circling cloud turned glowing white and began to scream like a cyclone. By now, of course, the insects were all dead, but their metallic cores hurtled onward in the circling magnetic field.
Then Jorn snapped off one non-jumped switch. At the lakeside, history's longest, widest, densest column of white-hot grapeshot screamed straight out of the tunnel of wire. It struck the looming saurian at an angle.
Nevertheless, the monster vanished utterly. Nothing was left but boiling red water.
The book ends with the starships returning to Earth, and they have indeed travelled back in time but only to ancient Egyptian times.
answered 3 hours ago
John Rennie
26.1k272120
Wow, I guess all I remembered from this was the ending. Definitely going on my re-read list, who would have though Blish would be zapping dinosaurs.
– Organic Marble
1 hour ago
And all the Stars a Stage definitely isn't the one I'm looking for I'm afraid - though it is possible I confused the insects & saurian from it with the one I'm looking for. Also the Blish novel doesn't have time-travel - they leave from a distant planet that only at the end you find wasn't Earth.
– Martin Goldsack
20 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack Surely there can't be two stories with metallic insects being fired from a magnetic gun to kill a dinosaur? You must have conflated two different stories.
– John Rennie
16 mins ago
I've edited the plot description to remove those elements in case I have conflated them with the Blish novel
– Martin Goldsack
6 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack hmm, now making my answer look totally unrelated to your question. Thanks.
– John Rennie
1 min ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
5
down vote
This is And All the Stars a Stage by James Blish, though there are some differences from your description.
In the book a starship is constructed using a newly discovered phenomenon called the Ertak Effect that allows FTL travel. Coincidentally it's also discovered the Sun is about to go nova, and the starships get away just in time. There are scenes of crowds mobbing the starships but I don't recall anyone dying because they got up for a drink of water.
The metallic insects are a positive match. The starship explores a world where members of the crew appear to be occasionally shot. It turns out that metallic insects are to blame:
Under the microscope the tiny creatures proved to resemble beetles more closely than they did gnats; and their rigid exoskeletons seemed to be made of something closely resembling tool steel. The wings under those impossible wing-cases had iron-sheathed venules; and the color in the blood of the creatures was provided by flecks of rust, which picked up and lost oxygen and energy by changing cyclically from ferrous to ferric oxides and —impossibly—back again. Nothing so heavy for its size could ever have flown, not even an inch.
They could not, indeed, be said to be true fliers, despite the wings. Instead, they hovered or travelled in the planet’s magnetic field. Such wing movements as they made set up eddy currents throughout the metal exoskeleton, which were promptly transformed into movement, at more than bullet-like velocities, along a line of magnetic force. The sudden slowing and veering motions which had been observed from the beginning were probably attributable to passage over local iron ore deposits.
The scene where they kill the monster is:
The engine snarled. The circling cloud turned glowing white and began to scream like a cyclone. By now, of course, the insects were all dead, but their metallic cores hurtled onward in the circling magnetic field.
Then Jorn snapped off one non-jumped switch. At the lakeside, history's longest, widest, densest column of white-hot grapeshot screamed straight out of the tunnel of wire. It struck the looming saurian at an angle.
Nevertheless, the monster vanished utterly. Nothing was left but boiling red water.
The book ends with the starships returning to Earth, and they have indeed travelled back in time but only to ancient Egyptian times.
answered 3 hours ago
John Rennie
26.1k272120
Wow, I guess all I remembered from this was the ending. Definitely going on my re-read list, who would have though Blish would be zapping dinosaurs.
– Organic Marble
1 hour ago
And all the Stars a Stage definitely isn't the one I'm looking for I'm afraid - though it is possible I confused the insects & saurian from it with the one I'm looking for. Also the Blish novel doesn't have time-travel - they leave from a distant planet that only at the end you find wasn't Earth.
– Martin Goldsack
20 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack Surely there can't be two stories with metallic insects being fired from a magnetic gun to kill a dinosaur? You must have conflated two different stories.
– John Rennie
16 mins ago
I've edited the plot description to remove those elements in case I have conflated them with the Blish novel
– Martin Goldsack
6 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack hmm, now making my answer look totally unrelated to your question. Thanks.
– John Rennie
1 min ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
5
down vote
up vote
5
down vote
This is And All the Stars a Stage by James Blish, though there are some differences from your description.
In the book a starship is constructed using a newly discovered phenomenon called the Ertak Effect that allows FTL travel. Coincidentally it's also discovered the Sun is about to go nova, and the starships get away just in time. There are scenes of crowds mobbing the starships but I don't recall anyone dying because they got up for a drink of water.
The metallic insects are a positive match. The starship explores a world where members of the crew appear to be occasionally shot. It turns out that metallic insects are to blame:
Under the microscope the tiny creatures proved to resemble beetles more closely than they did gnats; and their rigid exoskeletons seemed to be made of something closely resembling tool steel. The wings under those impossible wing-cases had iron-sheathed venules; and the color in the blood of the creatures was provided by flecks of rust, which picked up and lost oxygen and energy by changing cyclically from ferrous to ferric oxides and —impossibly—back again. Nothing so heavy for its size could ever have flown, not even an inch.
They could not, indeed, be said to be true fliers, despite the wings. Instead, they hovered or travelled in the planet’s magnetic field. Such wing movements as they made set up eddy currents throughout the metal exoskeleton, which were promptly transformed into movement, at more than bullet-like velocities, along a line of magnetic force. The sudden slowing and veering motions which had been observed from the beginning were probably attributable to passage over local iron ore deposits.
The scene where they kill the monster is:
The engine snarled. The circling cloud turned glowing white and began to scream like a cyclone. By now, of course, the insects were all dead, but their metallic cores hurtled onward in the circling magnetic field.
Then Jorn snapped off one non-jumped switch. At the lakeside, history's longest, widest, densest column of white-hot grapeshot screamed straight out of the tunnel of wire. It struck the looming saurian at an angle.
Nevertheless, the monster vanished utterly. Nothing was left but boiling red water.
The book ends with the starships returning to Earth, and they have indeed travelled back in time but only to ancient Egyptian times.
answered 3 hours ago
John Rennie
26.1k272120
This is And All the Stars a Stage by James Blish, though there are some differences from your description.
In the book a starship is constructed using a newly discovered phenomenon called the Ertak Effect that allows FTL travel. Coincidentally it's also discovered the Sun is about to go nova, and the starships get away just in time. There are scenes of crowds mobbing the starships but I don't recall anyone dying because they got up for a drink of water.
The metallic insects are a positive match. The starship explores a world where members of the crew appear to be occasionally shot. It turns out that metallic insects are to blame:
Under the microscope the tiny creatures proved to resemble beetles more closely than they did gnats; and their rigid exoskeletons seemed to be made of something closely resembling tool steel. The wings under those impossible wing-cases had iron-sheathed venules; and the color in the blood of the creatures was provided by flecks of rust, which picked up and lost oxygen and energy by changing cyclically from ferrous to ferric oxides and —impossibly—back again. Nothing so heavy for its size could ever have flown, not even an inch.
They could not, indeed, be said to be true fliers, despite the wings. Instead, they hovered or travelled in the planet’s magnetic field. Such wing movements as they made set up eddy currents throughout the metal exoskeleton, which were promptly transformed into movement, at more than bullet-like velocities, along a line of magnetic force. The sudden slowing and veering motions which had been observed from the beginning were probably attributable to passage over local iron ore deposits.
The scene where they kill the monster is:
The engine snarled. The circling cloud turned glowing white and began to scream like a cyclone. By now, of course, the insects were all dead, but their metallic cores hurtled onward in the circling magnetic field.
Then Jorn snapped off one non-jumped switch. At the lakeside, history's longest, widest, densest column of white-hot grapeshot screamed straight out of the tunnel of wire. It struck the looming saurian at an angle.
Nevertheless, the monster vanished utterly. Nothing was left but boiling red water.
The book ends with the starships returning to Earth, and they have indeed travelled back in time but only to ancient Egyptian times.
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Wow, I guess all I remembered from this was the ending. Definitely going on my re-read list, who would have though Blish would be zapping dinosaurs.
– Organic Marble
1 hour ago
And all the Stars a Stage definitely isn't the one I'm looking for I'm afraid - though it is possible I confused the insects & saurian from it with the one I'm looking for. Also the Blish novel doesn't have time-travel - they leave from a distant planet that only at the end you find wasn't Earth.
– Martin Goldsack
20 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack Surely there can't be two stories with metallic insects being fired from a magnetic gun to kill a dinosaur? You must have conflated two different stories.
– John Rennie
16 mins ago
I've edited the plot description to remove those elements in case I have conflated them with the Blish novel
– Martin Goldsack
6 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack hmm, now making my answer look totally unrelated to your question. Thanks.
– John Rennie
1 min ago
add a comment |Â
Wow, I guess all I remembered from this was the ending. Definitely going on my re-read list, who would have though Blish would be zapping dinosaurs.
– Organic Marble
1 hour ago
And all the Stars a Stage definitely isn't the one I'm looking for I'm afraid - though it is possible I confused the insects & saurian from it with the one I'm looking for. Also the Blish novel doesn't have time-travel - they leave from a distant planet that only at the end you find wasn't Earth.
– Martin Goldsack
20 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack Surely there can't be two stories with metallic insects being fired from a magnetic gun to kill a dinosaur? You must have conflated two different stories.
– John Rennie
16 mins ago
I've edited the plot description to remove those elements in case I have conflated them with the Blish novel
– Martin Goldsack
6 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack hmm, now making my answer look totally unrelated to your question. Thanks.
– John Rennie
1 min ago
Wow, I guess all I remembered from this was the ending. Definitely going on my re-read list, who would have though Blish would be zapping dinosaurs.
– Organic Marble
1 hour ago
Wow, I guess all I remembered from this was the ending. Definitely going on my re-read list, who would have though Blish would be zapping dinosaurs.
– Organic Marble
1 hour ago
And all the Stars a Stage definitely isn't the one I'm looking for I'm afraid - though it is possible I confused the insects & saurian from it with the one I'm looking for. Also the Blish novel doesn't have time-travel - they leave from a distant planet that only at the end you find wasn't Earth.
– Martin Goldsack
20 mins ago
And all the Stars a Stage definitely isn't the one I'm looking for I'm afraid - though it is possible I confused the insects & saurian from it with the one I'm looking for. Also the Blish novel doesn't have time-travel - they leave from a distant planet that only at the end you find wasn't Earth.
– Martin Goldsack
20 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack Surely there can't be two stories with metallic insects being fired from a magnetic gun to kill a dinosaur? You must have conflated two different stories.
– John Rennie
16 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack Surely there can't be two stories with metallic insects being fired from a magnetic gun to kill a dinosaur? You must have conflated two different stories.
– John Rennie
16 mins ago
I've edited the plot description to remove those elements in case I have conflated them with the Blish novel
– Martin Goldsack
6 mins ago
I've edited the plot description to remove those elements in case I have conflated them with the Blish novel
– Martin Goldsack
6 mins ago
@MartinGoldsack hmm, now making my answer look totally unrelated to your question. Thanks.
– John Rennie
1 min ago
@MartinGoldsack hmm, now making my answer look totally unrelated to your question. Thanks.
– John Rennie
1 min ago
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