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"What I have in my stories is ethics. Ethics and morality are very different cups of tea. I adhere to a very strict rigor of personal ethics and I demand it of those around me as well."
- Harlan Ellison

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
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