Re: Looking for stories....

On 07/07/2025 14:51, danny burstein wrote:

In <md20hbFmrmjU1@mid.individual.net> ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:
 

In article <booths-20250707135221@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Lee Gleason <lee.gleason@comcast.net> wrote or quoted:

   That have teleportation across stellar distances, but only to
teleportation booths that have been first been transported to their
destinations by conventional space travel on ships.

>
  Transfer booths only working between fixed locations equipped with
  booths exist in Larry Niven's Ringworld.

 

I was thinking about that.  Was there a reason given why they aren't
used off-planet?  Maybe they are SPEOL only?

 Also... they had to compensate for the differing potential
energies between receiving and transmission sites, as one
could be "traveling" (term used a bit loosely) a lot faster
and in a different direction, and altitude, etc., than
the other.
 This would otherwise lead to potentially a hefty chunk of
heat being released at the receiving site.
 (This was, iirc, a plot device in one of his stories).
 It's bad enough when talking about locations on the
same planet, but if you're looking at space velocities
and energy wells, etc., it's mind boggling...

Unless you're in space to begin with.
_
I think Niven's "All the Bridges Rusting" firstly
shows an interstellar spaceship which can teleport
itself but it needs a receiver, which is in the
outer solar system - so, less deep in the Sun's
gravity well.  I don't reme,ber if that mattered.
Meanwhile, another spaceship is out there and
in trouble.
<https://larryniven.net/?q=bibliographic-reference/all-the-bridges-rusting>
I think _One Step From Earth_ is Harry Harrison's
treatment of interstellar teleport machines.
Someone mentioned _Stargate SG-1_.  I suppose it
qualifies except for "booth".  Stories differ on
whether a traveller walks along inside a space
wormhole, or is quantumed from one planet to
another, or is sent or received electronically,
digitally - there's a story where Teal'c's pattern
is trapped inside Earth's Stargate and they have
to fix it without turning off and on again...?
I also found teleportation discussed in the second
half of 2024:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1g9mrzu/any_books_exploring_what_earth_is_like_after_the/>
"after the invention of matter transporters".