[Spaceships] Antimatter Factory

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by RogerBW

That's essentially what I do in Wives and Sweethearts (TL11 with mild superscience): antimatter factories as close to the star as they can be put and still survive, and freighters that shift the stuff around to where it's needed. Most systems have their own factories.

I think of this as the "standard" way of making antimatter in quantity when there isn't blatant superscience. I first encountered it in Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime (1986), but it may be older.