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"We're about 20 minutes away from the point where Clarke's law kicks in and technology becomes indistinguishable from magic."
- Peter Watts
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| Needle Gun | ||
| A (usually hand-held) weapon that fires thin slivers of metal. |
| Her armament was so inadequate as never to have given him a qualm. It consisted simply of a 10 mm. needle gun, fit only to detonate a stray mine. |
| From Slacker's Paradise,
by Malcom Jameson. Published by Astounding S-F in 1941 Additional resources -
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Readers might also check out the needle pipe from Ray Cummings 1928 story Beyond the Stars for an earlier use of this concept, and a bit more detail on other uses.
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