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[–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There's a sequence in a Larry Niven book where a ship sees some missiles inbound from across a solar system. In order to avoid them, they have to spend several hours at high-G thrust, nearly killing a bunch of the crew. It's a long, slow chapter of high tension, it obeys the laws of physics, and it's excellent.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'm a fan and collector, but that doesn't sound familiar from the portion of my collection that I've read through. Do you recall anything else?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure it's either The Mote in God's Eye or The Gripping Hand.

    Edit: Checked, and it's most of the last couple of chapters of The Gripping Hand. I fudged some of the details from not having read it in a long time, but the basics are there; spaceships jockeying for strategic advantage across an entire solar system, balancing fuel and orbits, and crews doing their best to withstand painful acceleration.

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