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On our third morning in Alcubierre the rifles arrived.
Homage to Catalonia 1938
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Of course they were far too precious to be fired and the mortars were kept in Alcubierre.
Homage to Catalonia 1938
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Chief Wheeler mumbled something about safeguards, grabbed a three-quarter inch box wrench, and straddled the Alcubierre Drive like it was a Brahma bull.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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With a mixture of apprehension and excitement, the captain gave the command to activate the Alcubierre Drive and the computer announced that a warp bubble had been formed, and was dragging the ship toward Mars at just over the speed of light.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Chief Wheeler mumbled something about safeguards, grabbed a three-quarter inch box wrench, and straddled the Alcubierre Drive like it was a Brahma bull.
365 tomorrows » Collaboration : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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With a mixture of apprehension and excitement, the captain gave the command to activate the Alcubierre Drive and the computer announced that a warp bubble had been formed, and was dragging the ship toward Mars at just over the speed of light.
365 tomorrows » Collaboration : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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The walls were completely intact, but the Alcubierre Drive was gone, and the only person who could hope to understand what had happened had vanished along with it.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The walls were completely intact, but the Alcubierre Drive was gone, and the only person who could hope to understand what had happened had vanished along with it.
365 tomorrows » Collaboration : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Something like an Alcubierre Drive, which is freakily similar to a Star Trek warp drive.
10 sci-fi technologies that just might happen « 10 Dots 2008
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While Mundane SF authors are busy manifestoing about how FTL (faster than light) travel is a ludicrous impossibility, real-life physicists are theorizing about ways in which an Alcubierre drive could theoretically warp space and allow FTL travel after all.
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