Re: Leader****p in SF

"Esa Perkio" <eperkio@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> pullo <pullo004@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> :  The scene was some urgent space battle where the leader[captain] has
to
> : make decisions which he does quickly.
> :
> :  He thinks to himself or the narrator supplies the logic: 'In a
critical
> : situation the most im****tant thing is to make decisions quickly. If in

> the
> : end they turn out to be the right ones, so much the better.'
>
> There's a scene like that (with said internal dialogue) in either
> Ringworld or Ringworld Engineers, with Louis Wu acting far more certain
> than he is. I think somebody else goes along happily and trustingly and
> Chmee looks sceptical, but bows to the necessity of doing something.
>
> Not space combat, though.

 That may well be it. The details are definitely hazy. It might have a 
non-battle emergency. Could have swore it was a Stirling though.

 If it had been somewhat different, say to emphasize decisiveness rather 
than speed - which I don't quite take to be synonymous - I could have more

fully accepted it.