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"I wrote many novels which … contained the element of the projected collective unconscious, which made them simply incomprehensible to anyone who read them, because they required the reader to accept my premise that each of us lives in a unique world."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Sick Stick | ||
| Baton that induces vomiting upon contact. |
Yet another of the 'non-lethal' weapons in our (still-fictional) future.
"Anderton sees Knott reaching behind his back, coming out with the HALO. The cop BEHIND ANDERTON takes out his sick- stick...
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| From Minority Report (Movie),
by Steven Spielberg. Published by Dreamworks in 2002 Additional resources -
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Compare to devices like the neuronic whip from Isaac Asimov's 1951 story The Stars, Like Dust, the lash tube from Philip K. Dick's 1954 story The Golden Man and the microwave pistol from Peter Watts' 2006 novel Blindsight.
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