On 28 Sep 2017 at 11:34, C. Berry wrote:

>
> Smith did something like this in one of the later "Lensman" books. The
> good guys found two planets with large and opposite momenta with
> respect to the target bad-guy world, installed ginormous inertialess
> drives on each of them, maneuvered them into position on either side
> of the target world, and then turned off the drive. Even at 15, this
> struck me as being just a teeny bit over the top, but it got the job
> done. :)

Eh, that's only about mid-range for Doc Smith.

Later on he has planet-sized negaspheres, and "sunbeams"

Then in Children of the Lens, he has planets from an alternate
universe that have *inert* FTL velocities. Thos made a mess out of
the star system(s) they were used on.

And then we look at the Skylark series. In Skylark Duquesne, we have
them tossing suns around and destroyng a *galaxy*.
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