Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy discussion

This is our discussion of the story:

“Damage” by David D. Levine

This short story is available to read on-line @Tor.com.

This story is part of the 2015 Nebula Award nominees short story discussion.

Space opera with a twist. I liked this one a lot.

That was very good.

Pretty nice military sci-fi story, written from the point of view of a sentient spaceship (single crew, fighter-bomber class.) Sentient spaceships seem to be all the rage these days.

How come Belters are always at war with Earth? It's such a common space opera theme, it almost seems inevitable.

So the point of this is that an AI is less a sociopath than its pilot and commanding officer? I wonder if it likes cat pictures?

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I liked the way the story handled the AI, the emotions & drives. It was different than I've read before.

I agree on the Belter - Earth war. I wonder who wrote that first? Heinlein's Between Planets was first published in 1951. Weren't there Belters in that war or was it just Earth-Venus-Mars?

Seems plausible that at some point the Belters would want control over the mining operations, and Earth might object. Does seem to be a war waiting to happen.