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"I believe in limited government, and the 20th century has been the century of government. The data is uniform. The government has failed at every single task it has set out to do, with the exception of waging war."
- Bart Kosko

C-Plus Cannon  
  Weapon fire that can skip past the speed of light and back.  

"Second Officer!"

"Sir!"

"Cancel my previous order! Let the lifeboat land. Hit the Etruria! Unload on that bloody damned berserker with everything we've got, right now!"

"Yessir!"

Long before Liao got back to the launch the c-plus cannon volleyed. Their firing was invisible, and inaudible here in airlessness, but still he and the others felt the energies released pass twistily through all their bones. Now the huge leaden slugs would begin skipping in and out of normal space, homing on their tiny target, far out-racing light in their trajectories toward Meitner's Planet. The slugs would be traveling now like de Broglie wavicles, one aspect matter with its mass magnified awesomely by Einsteinian velocity, one aspect waves of not much more than mathematics. The molecules of lead churned internally with phase velocities greater than that of light.

Liao was back on the dreadnought's bridge before laggard light brought the faint flash of destruction back.


('Inhuman Error' by Fred Saberhagen)

"Direct hit, Captain." There was no need to amplify on that.

"Good shots, Arms." And then, only a little later, a message got through the planet's ionospheric noise to tell them that the two people with the space inverter were safely down.

Technovelgy from Inhuman Error, by Fred Saberhagen.
Published by Analog Science Fiction in 1974
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