@cstross

Heh! You say that, but …

E.E. Smith, in the #Lensman series, found a way to plausibly force space battles in the future to be fought by barbarians with (space-)axes. Dutch barbarians with heavy-gravity world muscles, no less.

There was even a point where they had to use clubs and lengths of chain against mind-controlled humans, in a universe with personal force screens, impenetrable (space-)armour, blasters, and inertialessness.

If memory serves, it was something to do with the strange physics of 'hyper-spatial tubes' or being rotated out of phase with the universe, or something.

@floatybirb
#EESmith #SciFi #Valerians #VanBuskirk

Dellan Vanbuskirk Sentenced to 18 years for Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Escape, & Drugs
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(Kenai, AK) – On April 26, 38-year-old Dellan Vanbuskirk was sentenced to serve 18 years and 145 days of incarceration for new law violations...
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Dellan Vanbuskirk Sentenced to 18 years for Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Escape, & Drugs - Alaska Native News

(Kenai, AK) – On April 26, 38-year-old Dellan Vanbuskirk was sentenced to serve 18 years and 145 days of incarceration for new law violations and violations of his felony probation. On Dec. 18, 2023, Vanbuskirk was found guilty by a jury of his peers, of one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm, one count […]

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