Bring News Back: Difference between revisions

* In ''The Shiva Option'', the 4th [[Starfire]] book by [[David Weber]] and Steve White, an Alliance survey fleet finds a "back way" (an unusual [[Our Wormholes Are Different|warp point]] detectable from only one side) into one of the Bug home systems. It's a vastly easier avenue of attack than the direct route- but the fleet is already deep in enemy territory and cut off from retreat. In the end, it takes the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] of all the fleet's fighting vessels to get the survey ships home with the news.

** The previous book, ''In Death Ground'', similarly has a Terran fleet stumble upon a back door into one of the ''humans''' home systems, which the Bugs could use to pounce on humanity at any time. They have to get back and warn Terran H.Q., but they can't use the back door to get there and have to go around the long way.

* In T. H. White's ''[[The Once and Future King]]'' [[King Arthur]] sends off Sir [[Le Morte d'Arthur|Thomas Malory]] before the final battle, so he can [[Famed in Story|tell his story]].

* In ''[[Sienkiewicz Trilogy|With Fire and Sword]]'', two of the main characters go on a suicide mission to bring news back of the [[Last Stand]] their army is facing and to summon [[The Cavalry|reinforcements]].

* This is pretty much the main plot in the first book of ''[[The Riftwar Cycle|The Serpentwar Saga]]''. Erik and Roo ended up in the death cell and sentenced to hang. {{spoiler|They were spared with a few others after a fake hanging to serve in Calis's band of desperate men.}}

** In "[[Beyond the Black River]]", Conan and Balthus must get back the news of the impending Pict attack.

* The last chapter of [[Larry Niven]]'s novel ''[[Known Space|Protector]]'' reveals that the entire book has been one big case of Bringing News Back, telling of the human protector's war against the oncoming Pak warfleet, and giving advice on what to do should they (the human protectors) fail.

 

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