Reviews of Orbital Mechanics



  Offical BE Story Club Review

12/31/2004 
  This story is difficult to judge. On the one hand, I like how it starts, and I think Bunslinger was in one of his rare "good writing" days when he wrote this. However, I think the story takes too long to develop, and it will lose a lot of readers towards the middle with all the talk of gravity and ups and downs. As an editor, I tried to tone down a lot of the useless and repetitive text, so perhaps readers will not be quite as put-off as I was when I first read it.

The breast expansion scene in this one is pretty good though. The only problem I had with it is that it really didn't make any sense, and I doubt even a mass of breasts could affect gravity in such a way, or that a human could practically predict in a short amount of time that it would be enough to work. Everything worked out in the end, but I finished the story thinking that the whole concept was off-kilter and just a pitiful excuse to have the character enlarge her breasts.

Maybe I'm just being unnecessarily jaded, but as always with Gunslinger's stories, I think this one could have been... more. Read it for fun, and you'll be okay.

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  By : Lonnie

5/25/2005 
  While I'm willing to ignore scientific implausibilities in BE stories, when you make a physical law the centerpiece of your story, it's best if you get it right. Hold on, folks, I'm about to get all lectury. The acceleration due to gravity goes as G m / r^2, where G is the gravitational constant, m is the mass of the body causing the gravitational pull, and r is the distance between you and the body causing the gravitational pull. Let's say she ends up being 100 kgs, breasts and all. When you're one meter away from her, you'll be accelerating at 0.000000006672 m/s^2. To give you an idea of how tiny that is, if you were accelerating by that amount, it'd take you a little under five *hours* to travel one meter starting from a dead stop.

So, yeah, I'm doubting the problem's solution as given in Orbital Mechanics.

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  By : Darkstorm

4/26/2005 
  Once again, I'll have to disagree with the initial review of this story. I quite enjoyed it - Gunslinger has lent strength to his tale with "technobabble". Surely the crew of a spacecraft would be discussing technical aspects of their flight, and their ship, in times of crisis? The discussions of mechanics and physics, to me at least, have a certain relevancy.

The illustration by PortalComic is, as usual, excellent.

Good job guys.

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