Flandry escapes pursuit by orbiting close to a pulsar. See Ingenious Deceptions.
Rouvaratz reaches escape velocity by orbiting close to the shadow matter star in "In The Shadow."
These are good stories but, after a while, when rereading one, we are reminded of the others. I still have not reread as far as the discovery that one of the shadow planets is inhabited and communicative but that will wait till tomorrow.
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*Kaor, Paul!
As you know, I divided Anderson's writing career into early, middle, and late phases--with that last beginning in 1989 with THE BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS. The thought I had was that Anderson struck out in such strange and unexpected directions in his late phase partly because he wanted to correct any tendency at being excessively repetitive.
Sean
Poul had a -long- career; he wrote for well over 50 years.
And wrote very quickly.
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