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"In science fiction one can say a great many things that are unpalatable, … because it's expressed as science fiction you can slip it past their defenses."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Electro-Automatic Pistol | ||
| Circular, pocket-sized weapon. |
| Her quick fingers closed over a circular disk of metal, the size of an old-fashioned watch. At one point of the circumference was a small projection, the size and shape of a pencil stub. It was a weapon, ladylike but deadly - an electro-automatic pistol, originally given to her grandmother by her notorious grandfather...
...the disc... housed a revolving magazine of fifty charges. The short barrel projected from between her knuckles... her thumb lay on the trigger switch at the side... |
| Technovelgy from The Worlds of Tomorrow,
by Manly Wade Wellman. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1940 Additional resources -
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