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Originally Posted by Dr Nigel
For unreal physics: pretty much every space battle in David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series. The tactics used are often pretty creative (or certainly seemed so on a first reading).
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I never read any Harrington novels -- "Armageddon Inheritance" and "Apocalypse Troll" convinced me I never want to read anything by Weber again. One blooper I found amusing was relativistic missiles with fusion warheads. That's like taking a 5-inch cannonball and sticking a firecracker on it.
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Originally Posted by Dr Nigel
For slightly-closer-to-reality: the space battle in Niven's Protector. Although, I must confess this is nowhere near as creative as some of what has been described in this thread.
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Creative, yes, but just like Heinlein's tactic in "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress", packs less punch than advertised. The bullet would have hit the neutron star at about 0.5 C. M-16 bullet weighs about 8 grams. Say, it was a high-caliber rifle with a 40 gram bullet. Impacting neutron star it would produce a 200-250 kiloton explosion. I doubt that would harm a spacecraft tough enough and/or far enough away to survive neutron star's usual effects.