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"Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes."
- William Gibson

Loitering Micro-Missile  
  A small missile that does not need line-of-sight and can move at a slow pace until it finds its target.  

As the troops left the city, the top guns of the leading guilds took a hand, and they knew their business: weapons with curved or variating trajectories, weapons which fired around corners, micro-missiles proceeding at walking pace until within ten feet of the target.
Technovelgy from Invader on My Back, by Philip E. High.
Published by Ace Books in 1968
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Thanks to Winchell Chung for contributing this item.

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