Re: Looking for stories....

On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 21:23:47 -0500, Lee Gleason
<lee.gleason@comcast.net> wrote:

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  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. I know I've read
several stories using this over the decades. but can't think of 'em
right now....some of the stories dealt with ships that could use the
destination booth while in flight, simplifying crew changes and resupply
over the long periods it would take to get to a destination. SOme
couldn't use the target booth until it was set up at the destination,
complicating the long flight to it.

i don't recall them, but I /must/ have read some because, when I was
thinking about stories/games of my own (none of which I was able to
complete -- my mind just doesn't work that way) several of them
involved such systems.

One of the games, had it moved beyond the "thinking about it" phase,
would have had long periods where the turns were used to build up
invasion forces and then short periods where the gate reached the
target and set itself up so the invasion could commence. That, surely,
came from a book I read -- I was a great borrower of ideas from people
who actually were able to create stories/games.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"