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"It is change ... that is the dominant factor in society today... the world as it will be. This means that ... every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.""
- Isaac Asimov
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| Laser Finger | ||
| Special powered suit add-on makes you even quicker on the draw. |
| "Today we're only going to walk around the company, area, and nobody will leave the company area.' The captain wasn't wearing his .45 - unless he carried it as a good luck charm, under his suit - but he had a laser-finger like the rest of us. And his was probably hooked up. |
| Technovelgy from The Forever War,
by Jack C. Haldeman. Published by Not Known in 1974 Additional resources -
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