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> I think this one may have been by Poul Anderson. As I recall, one of the
> side effects of taking the antigrav path is that you never get the really
> neato weapons, flight tech, etc.
>
> I think the story starts with a group of conquistador type ETs landing their
> spaceship on a current tech Earth, and opening up on the natives with their
> super high tech weapons (muskets). Things progress as might be expected
> from this point.
It was Harry Turtledove, king of cuteness.
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