John Ringo
16 Quotations from John Ringo
| aircab n. | 2004 Road to Damascus iii. 38 The aircab took the winding turn through Maze Gap that would lead to Klameth Canyon, dipping and bumping as they encountered turbulent air at the edge of the weather front that had left Madison socked in beneath rain clouds. |
| antispinward adv. | 2009 Eye of the Storm 53 Your father’s corps was probing along the spinward axis of the spiral arm. Akoria is on the anti-spinward axis. |
| astrogation n. | 2005 We Few 46 Stars’re all you got to go by when you’re out in the beyond. And later, we had astrogation in school. Miners don’t always have beacon references to go by. I can pilot and steer by stellar location. |
| congoer n. | 2012 Queen of Wands 147 She’d spent the whole night in one corner or another watching the congoers. It was more or less how she’d spent high school, watching all the kids socialize around her and never being able to break in. |
| core n. | 2005 The Hero i. 8 There were indications from scouting ships that the Blobs were planning on attacking towards the Core worlds with a large fleet. |
| core n. | 2005 The Hero i. 9 But the line of advance was the question. While Earth and the Core might not care, the Islendian Republic didn’t wish to be the route used. |
| force screen n. | 2009 Eye of the Storm 75 It was unsettling because of the flicker of a Personal Area Force-screen—the PAF set up in the anticipated direction of attack. |
| gripping hand n. | 2005 Emerald Sea 446 On the gripping hand, we’re planning on feeding them to our dragons. |
| groundcar n. | 2004 Road to Damascus ii. 19 As he watched people jumping out of groundcars to greet them, newly arrived from their orbital transport, he couldn’t help wondering how many of them would hate him by the end of his mission. |
| impeller n. | 2003 There Will Be Dragons iii. 31 Take for example power skiing. All that you had to work with was a small T handle. This generated a shield-shaped force-field under foot and an impeller wave. The impeller could be used to hover the craft or push it forward. By driving forward over the water, with the anti-gravity neutralized, the system could be used to ski across the surface of the water using weight to adjust the angle of attack and turns. |
| jump n. | 2004 Road to Damascus ii. 24 Private yachts that weren’t designed for hyper-L hops that long and dangerous. Merchant ships shot to pieces before they made the jump out. |
| Sol III n. | 2007 Sister Time i. 1 (heading) Tuesday 10/12/54 Chicago, USA, Sol III |
| Standard n. | 2001 March Upcountry (2002) 263 As long as they used Standard, no one was going to be able to know what they were talking about. |
| star system n. | 2004 Road to Damascus ii. 24 It takes a desperate captain and crew to try crossing the Silurian Void, especially in some of the ships we’ve had limping through our star system. |
| tractor n. | 2011 Citadel xxxiv. 476 ‘We should retreat as fast as possible,’ Marshall Lhi’Kasishaj said. ‘Hook up the tractors of the ships and pull the docks through the gate. Kulo only knows what the Terrans are going to send through any moment now. They’ve clearly been building ships faster than anyone anticipated.’ |
| tractor field n. | 2006 Von Neumann’s War 242 They’ve apparently got a limited range on this tractor field. |