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Name |
Author (Publication Date) |
| Chris Wooding (2006) | |
| George Griffith (1893) | |
| David Gerrold (1983) | |
| L.F. Stone (1931) | |
| Thomas A. Easton (1990) | |
| H.G. Wells (1914) | |
| Robert Cromie (1895) | |
| Michael Crichton (1969) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1964) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1995) | |
| Edmond Hamilton (1938) | |
| David Brin (1990) | |
| William Gibson (1999) | |
| Larry Niven (1985) | |
| H.G. Wells (1898) | |
| H.G. Wells (1898) | |
| Frank Belknap Long, Jr. (1937) | |
| Nictzin Dyalhis (1925) | |
| Edmond Hamilton (1926) | |
| Keith Laumer (1960) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1955) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1964) | |
| Greg Bear (2007) | |
| Thomas A. Easton (1990) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1964) | |
| William Gibson (1999) | |
| William Gibson (1993) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1965) | |
| Edmond Hamilton (1927) | |
| Peter F. Hamilton (1996) | |
| Nat Schachner (1937) | |
| Bruce Sterling (1984) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1995) | |
| Philip E. High (1968) | |
| Frank Herbert (1965) | |
| John W. Campbell (1934) | |
| Edmond Hamilton (1928) | |
| George Griffith (1911) | |
| Garrett P. Serviss (1898) | |
| John Varley (1984) | |
| Robert Silverberg (1969) | |
| Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat) (1931) | |
| John Munro (1897) | |
| John W. Campbell (1933) | |
| Victor Appleton (1911) | |
| Jules Verne (1875) | |
| Manly Wade Wellman (1940) | |
| A.E. van Vogt (1941) | |
| Jack Vance (1967) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1965) | |
| Larry Niven (w/J. Pournelle) (1985) | |
| Fritz Leiber (1943) | |
| Isaac Asimov (1951) | |
| William Gibson (1993) | |
| Jules Verne (1896) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1965) | |
| Robert Heinlein (1951) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1960) | |
| Robert Heinlein (1959) | |
| H.G. Wells (1898) | |
| Cordwainer Smith (1965) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1992) | |
| William Nolan (w/G.C. Johnson) (1967) | |
| Frank Herbert (1965) | |
| Clifford Simak (1961) | |
| Bart Kosko (1987) | |
| H.G. Wells (1897) | |
| George Lucas (1976) | |
| H.G. Wells (1903) | |
| William Shatner (1989) | |
| Poul Anderson (1966) | |
| Frank Herbert (1965) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1954) | |
| E.E. 'Doc' Smith (1934) | |
| Jules Verne (1875) | |
| George Lucas (1976) | |
| Larry Niven (1970) | |
| Philip E. High (1968) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1992) | |
| Chris Wooding (2006) | |
| Jack Williamson (1931) | |
| Frank Herbert (1965) | |
| Roger Zelazny (1967) | |
| Larry Niven (1968) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1960) | |
| Peter Watts (2006) | |
| Yoshiyuki Tomino (1979) | |
| Yoshiyuki Tomino (1979) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1965) | |
| Alan Dean Foster (2010) | |
| Malcom Jameson (1941) | |
| Ray Cummings (1928) | |
| Isaac Asimov (1957) | |
| Isaac Asimov (1951) | |
| H. Beam Piper (1951) | |
| Greg Bear (2007) | |
| Edmond Hamilton (1928) | |
| Robert Heinlein (1940) | |
| Arthur K. Barnes (1938) | |
| Edmond Hamilton (1927) | |
| Ray Cummings (1930) | |
| Ray Cummings (1936) | |
| Ray Cummings (1930) | |
| E.E. 'Doc' Smith (1931) | |
| Chris Wooding (2006) | |
| Richard Morgan (2003) | |
| Cordwainer Smith (1953) | |
| J.J. Ferrat (1956) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1965) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1964) | |
| Arthur C. Clarke (1951) | |
| Harry Harrison (1960) | |
| David Drake (1979) | |
| Ayn Rand (1957) | |
| Harold Ramis (1984) | |
| Raymond Z. Gallun (1937) | |
| E.E. 'Doc' Smith (1934) | |
| Edmond Hamilton (1938) | |
| John W. Campbell (1930) | |
| Daniel Suarez (2009) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1992) | |
| Greg Bear (2007) | |
| Alan Dean Foster (1986) | |
| Philip Frances Nowlan (1928) | |
| Fritz Leiber (1943) | |
| Manly Wade Wellman (1941) | |
| Westwood Games (1995) | |
| Michael Crichton (1985) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1965) | |
| Frank Herbert (1965) | |
| Steven Spielberg (2002) | |
| Chris Wooding (2006) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1995) | |
| William Gibson (1986) | |
| Larry Niven (1970) | |
| Charles Stross (2003) | |
| Frank Herbert (1965) | |
| Michael Crichton (1985) | |
| Larry Niven (1967) | |
| Steve Perry (1985) | |
| Gordon R. Dickson (1960) | |
| E.E. 'Doc' Smith (1934) | |
| Robert Heinlein (1949) | |
| Piers Anthony (1968) | |
| Arthur C. Clarke (1955) | |
| Isaac Asimov (1952) | |
| Frank Herbert (1965) | |
| Frank Herbert (1972) | |
| Philip Pullman (1997) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1954) | |
| David Drake (1979) | |
| E.E. 'Doc' Smith (1939) | |
| H.G. Wells (1914) | |
| Murray Leinster (1947) | |
| Robert Heinlein (1959) | |
| E.E. 'Doc' Smith (1942) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1964) | |
| Larry Niven (1970) | |
| Robert Heinlein (1940) | |
| Jack Vance (1964) | |
| Maureen F. McHugh (1994) | |
| George Griffith (1893) | |
| Greg Bear (2007) | |
| Larry Niven (1980) | |
| Clark Ashton Smith (1931) |
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Navy Shoots Down Drone, With Help From Dr. Benton Quest Okay, so maybe it's not quite a parapower ray gun - but it works, in the real world. (re: Various, 4/11/2013 ) |
DARPA's Upward Falling Payload Like Leinster's Wabbler 'The Wabbler plunged into the water... It dived swiftly... slowly, it settled downward.'- Murray Leinster, 1942. (re: Murray Leinster, 1/15/2013 ) |
Arafat Poisoned With Polonium? '"This man was poisoned with a super-powerful radium salt," Rab Crane declared...'- Edmond Hamilton, 1938. (re: Edmond Hamilton, 11/26/2012 ) |
Bond's New Smart Gun In Skyfall Didn't Judge Dredd have these in the 1970's? (re: Various, 11/19/2012 ) |
Spraytect Self-Defense iPhone Case '... the joymaker in his hand hissed and sprayed him with something...'-Frederik Pohl, 1965 (re: Frederik Pohl, 10/27/2012 ) |
Army Seizure Ray Inspired By Pikachu (Updated) A deliberately-induced epileptic seizure. (re: John Varley, 9/28/2012 ) |
US Special Ops Wants Paralysis Device 'I have invented a weapon, Miss Carlyle... A paralysis ray!' (re: Arthur K. Barnes, 6/3/2012 ) |
Laser-Guided Smart Bullet Prototype 'Look, it's all electronic...' (re: Michael Crichton, 5/26/2012 ) |
Self-Guided Bullet Accurate Over One Mile 'The back half is all solid propellant. Valves for directional control ... look, it's all electronic.' (re: Michael Crichton, 1/30/2012 ) |
US Army-Branded Gaming Peripherals Last Starfighter, your peripherals are ready now! (re: Various, 1/13/2012 ) |
Switchblade Surveillance Missile 'You've heard of a bullet that has your name on it.' (re: Michael Crichton, 10/28/2011 ) |
StunRay Paralyzes With Light This weapon has been around in different forms in sf for quite a while. (re: Michael Crichton, 4/3/2011 ) |
DoDAMM Autonomous Robot Sentry Gun This gun targets and fires automatically. (re: Michael Crichton, 12/10/2010 ) |
Assault Intervention Device - A Pain Ray Gun Should this device be used in the United States? (re: Ray Cummings, 9/22/2010 ) |
XM-25 'Judge Dredd' Rifle For Special Forces According to reports, the Lawgiver may soon be seen in action in Afghanistan. Or a near real-life equivalent. (re: Various, 5/9/2010 ) |
Robotic Underground Munitions I think that if you want to destroy enemies in bunkers, you go with claws or robotic earthworms, courtesy of Philip K. Dick and Harry Harrison. (re: Philip K. Dick, 3/20/2010 ) |
Anubis Tactical MAV For Time-Sensitive Fleeting Targets It's incredible how close this science-fictional scenario is to playing out in real life. (re: Philip E. High, 3/5/2010 ) |
Airborne Laser Destroys Missile Ray gun fans, rejoice! A successful test of the Airborne Laser Testbed has been accomplished. (re: H.G. Wells, 2/13/2010 ) |
Chavez: US 'Tectonic Weapon' Caused Haiti Quake Just how much sci-fi has this guy been reading? (re: Various, 1/25/2010 ) |
Thermal Laser Weapon Evolves From PHaSR It's a long road to the phaser, but 'set it on stun' is getting closer to reality. (re: Various, 9/27/2009 ) |
Hovering Crowd Control Beam Who would think of using non-lethal beams from the air to enforce civilized behavior? (re: Larry Niven, 8/2/2009 ) |
Brain Interface Weapons War Crime Immunity DARPA has developed brain-interface devices that use special algorithms and neural signals to determine that a soldier has made a choice BEFORE he is consciously aware of it. Can a person commit a war crime without being aware of making a decision? (re: Various, 7/31/2009 ) |
Multimode Directed Energy Armament System I suppose calling this a 'ray gun' might be going too far, since I doubt it's portable. With proper miniaturization, maybe. (re: Harold Ramis, 4/26/2009 ) |
Taliban Looking For Right iPhone App In which I put together a Mullah, a iPhone and a missile-launching app. (re: Various, 2/15/2009 ) |
DARPA Seeks Self-Repairing Hunter-Killers? Not content to have effective robotic weapon systems, DARPA wants to make sure they are 'damage tolerant.' (re: Various, 12/16/2008 ) |
Energy Cannon Now On Order These lightweight laser-based energy weapons should be able to shoot down tactical targets like surface-to-air missiles and rockets. (re: Jack Vance, 12/11/2008 ) |
Nanohmics Flash Grenade And Blade It turns out that a working prototype very similar to the UV grenades in Blade has been created. (re: Various, 12/10/2008 ) |
MKV-L Multiple Kill Vehicle Video Defensive weapon video shows successful test; video also shows the basic concept for the MKV-L. (re: George Lucas, 12/8/2008 ) |
Guided Bullets By Exacto From DARPA DARPA once again pushes the envelope in a way that was clearly foreseen in books and movies. (re: Nolan and Johnson, 12/3/2008 ) |
Rocket Balls - Pentagon's Kinetic Fireball Incendiaries This looks a lot like a diagram of the mechanical theory of heat; I want to know what happens if the walls start to close in. (re: Philip E. High, 11/14/2008 ) |
Palm Pistol Defensive Firearm Interesting little device is a pretty close analog to an Isaac Asimov device from the 1950's. (re: Isaac Asimov, 10/29/2008 ) |
XM25 Individual Air Burst Weapon Like Judge Dredd's New smart gun fires rounds that detonate where you want them to, even in mid-air. (re: Various, 10/21/2008 ) |
Super-Resolution Vision System Super Sniper Scope DARPA goes sfnal in creating a sniper scope that can see through the fog of war. (re: Various, 9/18/2008 ) |
Wasp Knife Kills With Cold This weapon was developed to kill animals quickly when threatened in the wild; now, it has found its way into Britain. (re: Various, 7/20/2008 ) |
'Kill Switch' Feared By Pentagon It's a fine time to go looking for chips with embedded backdoors; didn't they see this in the movies and on TV? (re: Various, 5/5/2008 ) |
Training Videogames Bought By Defense Intelligence Agency This series of games is intended to teach analysis how to succeed in intelligence work. (re: Frank Herbert, 4/30/2008 ) |
MAHEM Metal Jets Like Clarke's Stiletto Beam This idea amazed me the first time I read about it, in Arthur C. Clarke's excellent novel 'Earthlight.' (re: Arthur C. Clarke, 4/23/2008 ) |
Ghostbuster Approach To Neutralizing WMD You knew that someday it would come to this; Homeland Security calls upon the Ghostbusters. (re: Harold Ramis, 4/21/2008 ) |
SWORDS Robots Pulled From Iraq For Bad Behavior The reason that the SWORDS robot was pulled from use in Iraq is finally revealed; it appears that a new successor has been named for combat robot. (re: Various, 4/13/2008 ) |
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Mosquito Device - Project X For Kids? Is the Mosquito device a harmless way to disperse crowds of unruly teens, or is it the indiscriminate use of a sonic weapon on children? (re: Ayn Rand, 2/13/2008 ) |
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Giant Air Vortex Gun You can tell the holiday season is approaching; I'm fondly remembering one of my favorite toys from the 1960's - and look, somebody made a giant version of it. (re: Various, 12/3/2007 ) |
Laser Dazzler Looked At By Canadian Forces Are sunglasses a reasonable countermeasure for this device? (re: Various, 11/16/2007 ) |
Invisible Tank Makes The Rounds (I Think) I'm not really sure about this story, but I couldn't resist it. (re: Ray Cummings, 10/30/2007 ) |
Super Soaker With Electro-Hydrodynamic Power This prototype device could allow police to fill up their nonlethal weapons from your garden hose. (re: Various, 8/23/2007 ) |
LED Incapacitator And The Minority Report Game A bit of reader help on this one, if possible. (re: Philip K. Dick, 8/15/2007 ) |
Skullcandy G.I. Headphones Not Quite Skullgun I'm not sure if you can get this one through an airport or not. (re: Neal Stephenson, 8/3/2007 ) |
TASER XREP Neuro-Muscular Incapacitation This little device comes just 132 years after it was first conceptualized by Jules Verne. (re: Jules Verne, 7/11/2007 ) |
Stink Bullets And PKD's Sheep Dip Isolator Philip K. Dick always thinks up the ultimate version of everything. (re: Philip K. Dick, 7/2/2007 ) |
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Active Denial Sytem Heat Ray Warming Up Raytheon finally gets this nonlethal crowd-dispersing weapon out in public view. (re: H.G. Wells, 1/27/2007 ) |
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Laser Gunship Prototype By 2007 The military is working hard to bring this weapon system online, hopefully in time for Cyberdyne Systems to use it. (re: James Cameron, 10/22/2006 ) |
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Long Range Stunners - Again Another long range stun weapon - actually, Jules Verne had this one first. (re: Jules Verne, 9/13/2006 ) |
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Password-Protected Bullets Wait In Their Chambers Jeez, another password to remember. But the system has options to let you avoid 'what the heck is that password?' hell. (re: Various, 6/27/2006 ) |
Cylogic Smart Avenger Runaway Project Just don't let Gene Simmons of KISS get one of these planned smart missiles - you saw what he did with smart bullets in Runaway. (re: Michael Crichton, 5/2/2006 ) |
Pulsed Energy Projectile EMPs Your Nervous System PEPs use plasma to electromagnetically pulse your nervous system into thinking something bad is happening. And you can fine-tune it. (re: Isaac Asimov, 2/13/2006 ) |
Robotic Sentry Gun From USMechatronics Two brothers build an autonomous robotic sentry gun as a summer project. (re: Michael Crichton, 12/6/2005 ) |
Military Sets PHASR On Stun Send security down to the transporter - and don't forget the PHASR rifles. (re: Gene Roddenberry, 11/8/2005 ) |
AESA Radars Used As 'Death Ray' Weapons? The Pentagon is actively developing electronically scanned array (AESA) radars that could be used as weapons. (re: Hugo Gernsback, 10/14/2005 ) |
Armed Dolphins Freed By Katrina? Armed dolphins trained to hunt terrorists may be loose in the Gulf of Mexico, freed accidentally by Katrina. (re: Various, 9/26/2005 ) |
HELLADS: Lightweight Laser Cannon Ultra-light High Energy Liquid Lasers are coming. (re: Niven/Pournelle, 8/25/2005 ) |
Lynntech Non-Lethal Weapon - Jules Verne Right Again Under DARPA's auspices, Lynntech of College Station, Texas, is developing a non-lethal projectile with a longer range than a Taser. (re: Jules Verne, 8/18/2005 ) |
Piezer - Homeland Security Orders Verne's 1875 'Leyden Ball' DARPA is looking for an untethered electro-muscular disruption non-lethal stun weapon. (re: Jules Verne, 8/18/2005 ) |
Inertial Capacitive Incapacitor: HomeSec Does Verne With Homeland Security, Physical Optics Corporation is taking a page from nineteenth century science fiction writer Jules Verne. (re: Jules Verne, 8/18/2005 ) |
Active Denial System Has Researchers Worried The 'Sheriff' Active Denial System (ADS), due to be implemented in Iraq by 2006, has some scientists and researchers expressing concerns. (re: H.G. Wells, 7/21/2005 ) |
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Polymeric Nitrogen: Science Fiction Explosive Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry have synthesised a polymeric cubic form of nitrogen where all atoms are connected with single covalent bonds, similar to carbon atoms in diamond, creating what may be the most powerful explosive e (re: E.E. , 8/10/2004 ) |
MTHEL - Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser The Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL) successfully tracked and destroyed a large-caliber test rocket at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. (re: H.G. Wells, 6/10/2004 ) |
Electrolux Death Ray "The Rolls-Royce of atomic weapons?" Maybe. Take a look at sculptor Greg Brotherton's Electrolux Death Ray, and decide for yourself. (re: Larry Niven, 5/10/2004 ) |
Active Denial Technology: Directed Energy Weapons Active Denial Technology disables enemy soldiers or crowds with a painful beam of electromagnetic energy that inflicts a disabling, burning pain over the body by triggering heat receptors in the skin. (re: William Gibson, 4/28/2004 ) |
VLe Provides Non-Lethal Response The VLe handgun provides variable-lethality in the same weapon, giving law enforcement and homeowners a non-violent alternative; like Stephenson's Loogie Gun, only less icky. (re: Neal Stephenson, 3/30/2004 ) |
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