@ericnay Eric Nay: If I targeted a location plus that at x+1 and x-1, and y+1 and y-1, it seems like I could pretty effectively deny access to the are...

@teezett: Must have been a huge stack of papers then, as the number of sheets of papers come out to around 140,000 to 1,400,000 depending on when you...

Fair idea Justin, though seems better to just have the drone unmanned and explode upon impact with the shields/hull, which probably makes it more of a...

Nevermind, I seem to have found it after looking at the books with less clear titles: Annals of the Keepers Looks like a third book is due to come o...

Seems like this approaches the jump bomb/missile/mine suggestion I had a while back. Though in that case, remaining undetected and accuracy was highes...

I'm not aware of a specific name for it. However, it is a somewhat common theme. I'm more of a fan of the sci-fi variation, but you also see that them...

A fair point Ryk, the calculations are on the basis that KU has to be profitable directly. I wouldn't even try to determine how much KU makes Amazon i...

Interesting, but seems like a Transition Drive (from Evan Currie's Odyssey One series) would be more interesting, especially in first person with Ocul...

Unfortunately, I think you might be fairly optimistic Ryk, and Amazon seems terribly so (see last paragraph). The total payout is going to based on t...

I agree with you four island, if the satellites have sufficient acceleration. Although it should be noted that the method I suggested only "effective...

I think I have a possible work around for moving planet's via satellite based jump array. The key is that it seems like the jump drive travels in-lin...

I've more-less enjoyed the series so far (I've read the first 6 books and reading other books before I get to 6th), so I didn't think it's too bad Ran...

Doesn't seem like they would burn up in the atmosphere due to velocity and even if they do, they would still impart their damage into the atmosphere w...

Fair point Eric, looks like it's back to needing a way to change the orbital speed/velocity. Four Island, that works if that planet is in just the ri...

I'm with Four Islands on this one. Although, Four island missed the the way jump tech works. You'd need to be able to make significant changes to the...

The Mass Effect series has a nice part that illistrations another issue with high=C sand. Note that while the video talks about much more massive rou...

Now the hard part: what do I read while waiting for Episode 13? You shall read Episode 13 as it's out now!

On royal families in sci-fi... Seems like a number of cases could probably be explained simply by the author being in a country with a royal family ...

What if unsubordinate Takaran nobles decide to get rid of Casimir and invade Earth via the jump gates? For me, the gates are too big a risk… They must...

A mobile jump-gate seems like the way to go to avoid jump gates being too easy of a target for the Jung. If you can put a jump drive on an an asteroid...

... The main reasons that I pulled out of Select/KU are the first, Amazon’s implentation is poorly designed and unfair. (I am referring specifically t...

Designs for larger ships might be useful if they have a high degree automation and include ways on how to build them quickly. Although, there really i...

The secret formula for Coca-Cola and the Colonel’s secret recipe have to be in the Archive and must protected from the Jung at all costs. Hear, hear!...

I'm not sure it would be that inaccurate, though it depends on how the accuracy scales with distance. There's a fair chance that it would be in the 0....

The way Ryk explained how a jump drive works, made me think that jump gates would be largely impractical. However, Adien's Supercharger (seems like as...

I don't see any real issue for young adult/teen readers, though not sure it's really intended for pre-teens anyway. That being said, I find the premi...

At any rate Amazon is not making a mistake. They are forcing writers like you to drop out, meaning that when people now have to pay for your book Amaz...

That's pretty much the issue Chris. KU seems to be more beneficial to the readers, especially the poor ones, than the authors. Worst, the more benefit...

I'm not all that surprised by this. The kind of people who would pay for kindle unlimited are going to be the ones who are regular readers and read en...