I’m pretty sure it’s either The Mote in God’s Eye or The Gripping Hand.
Edit: Checked, and it’s most of the last couple of chapters of The Gripping Hand. I fudged some of the details from not having read it in a long time, but the basics are there; spaceships jockeying for strategic advantage across an entire solar system, balancing fuel and orbits, and crews doing their best to withstand painful acceleration.
I have 56 books of his (a few are duplicates in other editions), including those two. I read Mote ages ago, bit don’t remember it. Reordering my TBR pile!
I’m pretty sure it’s either The Mote in God’s Eye or The Gripping Hand.
Edit: Checked, and it’s most of the last couple of chapters of The Gripping Hand. I fudged some of the details from not having read it in a long time, but the basics are there; spaceships jockeying for strategic advantage across an entire solar system, balancing fuel and orbits, and crews doing their best to withstand painful acceleration.
I have 56 books of his (a few are duplicates in other editions), including those two. I read Mote ages ago, bit don’t remember it. Reordering my TBR pile!