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"I was driving a dynamite truck when I was 14 years old in North Carolina."
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As far as I know, this is the first instance of the disrupter ray.
Can this technology fit into a hand-held device? Of course:
"All hands in the air." Compare to the de-atomizing ray from Crashing Suns (1928) by Edmond Hamilton, the disrupter tube from The Emperor of the Stars (1931) by Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat), the golden ray of synchronized vibrations from The Return of the Murians (1932) by Nat Schachner, the Bethé blasters from Cities in Flight (1957) by James Blish, the annihilator beam from Conquest of Gola (1931) by L.F. Stone, the Vortex Gun from One Against the Legion (1939) by Jack Williamson. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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