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"The first thing that's wrong with being a science-fiction writer today is that the present has caught up with the future and surpassed it."
- Peter Watts
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| Annihilator Beam | ||
| A deadly ray that literally dissolved matter! |
| They were within their flyers, held by our combined wills, unable to act for themselves. It was then as easy for us to switch our zones of force upon them, subjugate them more securely and with the annihilator beams to disintegrate completely every ship and man into nothingness! |
| From The Conquest of Gola,
by L.F. Stone. Published by Wonder Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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Great name; the concept was used in Edmund Hamilton's 1928 novel Crashing Sun (see de-atomizer) and the disintegrator from Garrett P. Serviss' 1898 novel Edison's Conquest of Mars.
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