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"In 1970 I found little difficulty staying 30 years ahead of the man in the street, and now I find it difficult to stay 18 months ahead of the man on the street."
- Vernor Vinge
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| Disrupter Ray (Molecule Disrupter) | ||
| Atoms of materials no longer adhere to each other. |
As far as I know, this is the first instance of the disrupter ray.
| This smaller machine is a molecule disrupter. It stops the activity of atoms and destroys
their power of attracting one another and maintaining
space between themselves. During a battle we cut huge
slices out of the enemy craft until a vital spot is injured.
Sometimes, if we catch an enemy ship unaware, we cut
it completely in two before they can maneuver out of
the danger.
 ('The Silent Destroyer' by Henrik Juve) |
| Technovelgy from The Silent Destroyer,
by Henri Dahl Juve. Published by Air Wonder Stories in 1929 Additional resources -
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Can this technology fit into a hand-held device? Of course:
The hands of the Occidental crew instantly reached
upward and the visitor turned to see who had taken
charge of the situation. He turned cold and froze
in his tracks! With some twenty-five men at his back,
each armed as was he, stood a man with a small
molecule disrupter leveled at the exploring party!
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.
"All hands in the air."
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