Valhalla by Greg Benford
No, that doesn’t sound like it either. The year is never stated, and the tyrant is never mentioned by name as Hitler.
Short story where in the future polynesians(?) alone can operate space ships with solar sails. Main character is a Polynesian crewman who had to be set adrift on a small craft because he had killed a villainous passenger. A young girl who has a crush on him sneak on board. Somewhat open ending.
Poul Anderson has a series of stories about future Polynesians. Bet it’s one of them
The Maurai series
I don’t think that’s it, I remember reading a story like the one Chelonaut mentions and the Polynesians were the only ones who could operate ship because the melanin in their skins protected them from radiation. There was no mention of a Maurai nation dominating parts of Earth, in fact IIRC everybody had mostly departed Earth except for Muslims and Jews who continued fighting over it or something like that.
I have a sci fi magazine somewhere around with that short story (in Spanish) I’ll try to find it.
Ok. I shouldn’t have been so confident! I’ll see if I can figure it out
I can’t find it, I think I put it in a box with a lot of other books I had no place for and it’s now in the attic.
Google is not helping either.
Also the wikipedia article on the Maurai series says that they’re only just starting to maybe develop space travel in the concluding book, so I don’t see how the story I described could belong there.
Thanks for looking up your magazine collection. I think I read the story in an anthology, could be one I actually own, if only my book collection wasn’t such an unordered mess I might actually find it.
I have no idea who wrote this or when. There is a telepathic civilization. When two people are having a telepathic “conversation”, each one keeps saying his own name repeatedly out loud for ID. The one I remember are two people named Erkbat and Doyle. I searched for those names but found bupkis.
Interstellar Patrol, by Christopher Anvil?
According to this the name Erkbat shows up on page 62 of the 79th volume of Analog Science Fiction magazine in 1967. The name Doyle also seems to appear in that volume, along with names like Krojac, Markat and Sheaster.
Per the ISFDB, Volume 79 covers issues from March '67 through Feb '68.
Looking at the table of contents for March 1967 https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56803 brings no joy (I don’t think it’s “The Technicolor Time Machine”), but the search continues.
“Experts in the Field” by Christopher Anvil
Available in the Internet Archive here
And reviewed here [April 30, 1967] Strange New Worlds and Staid Old Ones (May 1967 Analog) - Galactic Journey
The novel The Second Voyage of the Seventh Carrier by Peter Albano takes place in a world where a Chinese missile defense system goes rogue and starts shooting down every single aircraft or missile with a rocket or jet engine which then resets all aviation back to World War 2 levels. Oddly enough its actually the second book in a series where the first book is entirely about an old WW2 Japanese aircraft carrier which survived WW2 and attacks Pearl Harbor again in the 1980s, so clearly the author had already run out of plot by the second book.
And now after digging through all those archives, I see you had it first!
Thanks, but nope - not the one I read.
Certainly not. That one is about making historical-based movies on the cheap by going back in time and filming them on site. The main movie is about the Vikings discovering Vinland. Paradoxes occur.
It’s been decades since I read this book and I thought I had a hard copy, but I don’t anymore. Since I posted my question I’ve been trying to remember more details to help narrow it down.
Very Dimly Remembered Plot Point #1:
I started thinking about how a single satellite could shoot down all air traffic on the surface of the Earth and I realized that there had to be two satellites - both identical - orbiting the earth at opposite locations such that both hemispheres of the Earth is under constant surveillance.
I can’t remember if the cause of the satellites going rogue was a deliberate act of hacking malice or simply a grievous error in software coding/programming.
Very Dimly Remembered Plot Point #2:
Aircraft of any type or size are destroyed once the aircraft reach a certain speed and distance from the ground. ALL air traffic on the Earth is completely shut down.
Very Dimly Remembered Plot Point #3:
An attempt was made to disable one or both satellites using the most advanced cutting-edge radar-invisible stealth hardware and aircraft available. The attempt failed.
Very Dimly Remembered Plot Point #4:
Very careful analysis of the satellites radar coverage reveal a very slight flaw in the coverage that may allow one of the killer satellites to be approached from orbit - not from the ground.
NOTE: This is really really dim.
Very Dimly Remembered Plot Point #5:
There is a romantic relationship (of course) between the two people involved in actually solving the problem.
Very Dimly Remembered Plot Point #6:
One of the killer satellites is eventually boarded but the attempt to disable the satellite entails peril from the tremendous radar RF energy that the satellites emit.
That’s all I’ve got for now. Let me know if any of the above rings a bell.
I don’t know how you expect Google to search through boxes in your attic !