Beyond The Sprues

Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Other => Topic started by: elmayerle on April 07, 2013, 08:45:36 AM

Title: Interesting Concept from an Unsurprising Source
Post by: elmayerle on April 07, 2013, 08:45:36 AM

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Robert Heinlein to Ted Sturgeon,  11 Feb, 1955:
"Story about two countries fighting not with men, not with robots, but with mutated-animal soldiers. Fighter-pilot cats (all the gadgetry automatic, but the piloting done by the supercat), Rhino tanks, ape paratroopers, sea lion "frogmen" etc."

Full text is at http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/help-from-heinlein.html (http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/help-from-heinlein.html)  As best I can recall, Mr. Heinlein's Door Into Summer was the first sf novel to ever consider CAD.

Title: Re: Interesting Concept from an Unsurprising Source
Post by: jschmus on August 14, 2013, 02:11:33 AM

I wonder if this is what the creators of "SwatKats" were thinking of.