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"I received a nice letter the other day from the Dalai Lama. He had read 'The Nine Billion Names of God'. It is about a computer at a Tibetan monastery."
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![]() This is as far as I know the first use of this phrase in science fiction.
Compare to the heat ray from War of the Worlds (1898) by HG Wells, the
short-wave surgical knife from Boomerang (1953) by Eric Frank Russell, the
ray gun from The Black Star Passes (1930) by John W. Campbell, the
pencil heat ray from Brigands of the Moon (1930) by Ray Cummings and the
flesh gun from The Computer Connection (1974) by Alfred Bester.
See also the death projector from ML Staley's The Stolen Mind (1930). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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