Huh, and here I had assumed Niven and Pournelle made that up since it wasn’t in Herodotus like they claimed.
Where was it in Niven and Pournelle? I first saw it in The Cross Time Engineer.
In “the gripping hand” it is used as an example for a crazy eddy plan, that could actually work.
It was in The Mote in God’s Eye.
Huh, and here I had assumed Niven and Pournelle made that up since it wasn’t in Herodotus like they claimed.
Where was it in Niven and Pournelle? I first saw it in The Cross Time Engineer.
In “the gripping hand” it is used as an example for a crazy eddy plan, that could actually work.
It was in The Mote in God’s Eye.