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"My feeling is that the chance of our surviving into the twenty-first century as working civilization is less than fifty percent but greater than zero."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Blast Rifle | ||
| A gun that creates a short-range energy blast. |
When venturing down from the cities in the clouds to the surface, one must be well-armed.
| He wore a space suit of green - nearly pure ulinium. About his slim middle was strapped a short-range blast rifle containing billions of liberated positrons in the charge chamber at its base. A slight pressure on the control trigger would blast the positrons outward into a field of free negative electrons.
A few inches from the mouth of the short-range weapon a searing, blinding inferno would then come into being. Trillions of electron volts of energy would shrivel to gray ash all animal and vegetable life within range of the sinister weapon. |
| Technovelgy from Exiles of the Stratosphere,
by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1937 Additional resources -
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