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"There's no point in making a mistake unless you understand the mistake so that you don’t make it again."
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Heinlein also calls them "parabombs."
The same technovelgy was used in Methuselah's Children, a story written the same year.
"The legate--"began one. He got no further; a paralysis bomb tinkled and popped at his feet. He
looked surprised as the radiations wiped all expression from his face; his mate fell across him.
Lazarus waited behind a shoulder of the arch, counted seconds up to fifteen: "Number one jet fire!
Number two jet fire! Number three jet fire!"-added a couple to be sure the paralyzing effect had died
away. He had cut it finer than he liked. He had not ducked quite fast enough and his left foot tingled
from exposure.
He then checked. The two were unconscious, no one else was in sight.
Compare to the paralysis ray from Satellite Five (1938) by Arthur K. Barnes. Also, compare to the paralyzing eye from L. Sprague de Camp's The Best Laid Scheme (1941), the paralyzing ray from Ray Cumming's Blood of the Moon (1936), the paralyzing cone from The Atomic Conquerors by Edmond Hamilton (1927) and the para-beam from EC Tubbs' Mechanical Monarch (1958). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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