The stories that Jim Baranski and Bart Massey are talking about sound like
Larry Niven / Jerry Pournelle collaborations. I think that the friction-
less toilet appears in _Mote In God's Eye_, as one of the Brownies'
constructions aboard the _MacArthur_. The story reads a lot like something
out of Classic Traveller, black globes and all. Sequel due out soon, but
it stands alone.
There is a story about hiding from enemies in a solar system with
some very dangerous planets in one of the "Man-Kzin Wars" books too, which
are usually Niven collaborations with Pournelle and at least one other
author. It seems that his contract with the publisher for the _Mote_
sequel stipulates that it will be the next Niven/Pournelle book, but
says nothing about three-way collaborations.... :)
- --Steve Bonneville
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