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  • Eventually he might accumulate such a stack of information that Yu could make something of it, maybe even figure out how the jetless drive worked.

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

  • But. first, of course, there is the jetless drive.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • There had to be some sort of such arrangement for controlling and directing the jetless drive.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • The Plan of Man needs the jetless drive, you silly little skirt!

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • For if there was no measurable thrust against its environment to balance its measured dynamometer pull-then the spaceling had, indeed, a true jetless drive.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • It was Donderevo who first told my father something about the spacelings and the reefs, and convinced him that the Machine should try to develop a jetless drive.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • For a second Ryeland was lying on his couch in the therapy room again, with the cold electrodes clamped on his body and Thrale's apologetic voice lisping out the words that had been senseless to him then, jetless drive ... - fusorian. .. pyropod.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • Born fully formed-obviously, they are able to maintain a field, able to use the jetless drive!

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • Or had he really ever known how to build a jetless drive?

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • Even if a jetless drive could be invented, how could it threaten the Plan?

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

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