Talk:How Firm A Foundation

I've been chewing on ideas, speculating on where this series has to go:

1) The story could become steam-punk. The boys at the royal college will have reason to want to make computers: They've seen what OWL can do, and they're going to want accurate logarithm tables for ballistics (BHD mentioned the possibility of over the horizon artillery shelling. The limiting factor was mathematics for predicting trajectory, not weaponry).

2) The last book essentially ended with Merlin pointing ship design in the direction of iron clads, except they don't have steam engines. Is this when the proscriptions start being ignored?

3) cartidges fired by concussion (essentially modern ammunition) seems to be likely to invented by the end of HFAF. How soon will recoiless guns and gattling guns happen?

Emteeoh 03:00, March 26, 2011 (UTC)