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Compare to the cone of silence From Cease Fire (1958) by Frank Herbert, hush corner by Robert Heinlein in Double Star and the Fenton Silencer from an early Arthur C. Clarke story.
The earliest example I know of is the isolation barrage from Wandl, The Invader (1939) by Ray Cummings. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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