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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. You look at the world around you, and take it apart into its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Self-Guided Rocket Bullets | ||
| A rifle made for airless environments shoots rocket bullets. |
| [Ramos] held a rifle casually, but at alert, across his knees. Its needle-like bullets were not intended to kill. They were tiny rockets that could flame during the last second of a long flight, homing in on a target by means of a self-contained and marvelously miniaturized radar guidance system. Their tips were anesthetic. |
| Technovelgy from The Planet Strappers,
by Raymond Z. Gallun. Published by Pyramid Books in 1961 Additional resources -
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Compare to the smart bullet from Runaway (1985), by Michael Crichton and the roving bombs from Manly Wade Wellman's 1941 story The Lost Rocket Some of them are fancy:
Compare to the electro-bullets from Pirates of the Gorm (1932) by Nat Schachner.
The one who had spoken, also a Venusian, was an enormous fat man whose large belly shimmied like gelatin when he shifted his footing. He wore a silver coin-studded black leather belt almost a foot wide. Two ivory handled atomic automatics snuggled in holsters attached to the belt.
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