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"I realized there was a heavy-duty change coming in biology, and I could write a really compelling novel about catastrophic evolution, punctuated equilibrium."
- Greg Bear
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| Scorpion | ||
| A war machine with a deadly tail gun, perfect for downing drones in the skies. |
Although it is called a scorpion in the book, it only superficially resembles the deadly natural arachnid.
| Close to the ridge where they stood a line of many-wheeled monsters rolled past — scorpions, moving along the battle front and, whenever the thickening smoke up ahead revealed a target, halting to wheel round and discharge their heavy-caliber tail guns...
Only a dozen yards away, a scorpion, came rumbling up across the crest, its many wheels jolting over the rocks, and halted there, its tail gun weaving angrily as it sought vainly for targets in the sky. Along one of its gray-painted sides was a long bright gash where something had barely glanced from its armor. And Dworn saw, too, the black outline of a mythological arachnid on its observation turrret [sic], which signified that the machine belonged to a scorpion chief. |
| Technovelgy from World of the Drone,
by Robert Abernathy. Published by Imagination in 1955 Additional resources -
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