Footfall: Difference between revisions

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Footfall.

* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: Several sci-fi authors, including clear [[Author Avatar]] versions of both authors as well as one of [[Robert A. Heinlein]], brought together by the government to help think up ways to fight an alien invasion.

* [[Orion Drive]]: Project Michael, {{spoiler|the last ditch effort to win the war, as the fithp hold the orbitals}}. Whenever the main engine was in operation in the ensuing space battle, the onomatopoeia "WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM" was used. One of the crew reflected that "God was knocking, and he wanted in ''bad''."

* [[Possession Implies Mastery]]: Subverted. Although the fithp have a great deal of advanced technology, compared to the humans, it turns out that they are a young race who found a cache of technological knowledge left by another, older species and built their entire civilization around it. But they never developed any kind of science and have a cultural tunnel-vision centered around the technologies in the cache; not only are they unable to analyze or extrapolate base principles from the ancient knowledge, but they cannot imagine or cope with a technology not laid out in detail for them in the cache. They know how to use it and that's all they know about it.