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"Science fiction and science have always danced around each other. Science fiction is the subconscious of science."
- Greg Bear
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| Stun Gun | ||
| A device which dispensed electric bolts. |
This is the first use of "stun gun" that I know about.
| Lodner clawed at his belt, failed to find his disciplinary stun gun, turned to Horovic, who was entering behind him, and yanked the cruel stub nosed electronic clubber from the chief guard’s waist clip.
The Tech man said. “Sir. I’ve done nothing.” Lodner threw the gun on him. The Tech man tried to dodge. But the bolts sledged the quick turning shoulder and head. The Tech man was slapped over. He lay huddled on the floor. Lodner tossed the stun gun on a flange between the stills and the fluxing panels. ‘I'll teach you to stand and gawk at me, you swine,” said Lodner coldly and turned his attention to the disks. |
| Technovelgy from The Unforeseen,
by Mark Champion. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1946 Additional resources -
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Compare to the stun pistol from The Mule (1945) by Isaac Asimov [later published as Foundation and Empire in 1952].
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