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"I was involved in a cloning project. .. to send me into outer space along with a lot of other people. Not the whole me - just a hair from my head, while I still had some. I would thus pop up in another galaxy in the distant future."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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| Laser Finger | ||
| Special powered suit add-on makes you even quicker on the draw. |
| "Today we're only going to walk around the company, area, and nobody will leave the company area.' The captain wasn't wearing his .45 - unless he carried it as a good luck charm, under his suit - but he had a laser-finger like the rest of us. And his was probably hooked up. |
| Technovelgy from The Forever War,
by Jack C. Haldeman. Published by Not Known in 1974 Additional resources -
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