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"Another reason why privacy could be just a passing fad, terrorism is going to get too good. [1997]"
- Larry Niven
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| Self-Guided Rocket Bullets | ||
| A rifle made for airless environments shoots rocket bullets. |
| [Ramos] held a rifle casually, but at alert, across his knees. Its needle-like bullets were not intended to kill. They were tiny rockets that could flame during the last second of a long flight, homing in on a target by means of a self-contained and marvelously miniaturized radar guidance system. Their tips were anesthetic. |
| From The Planet Strappers,
by Raymond Z. Gallun. Published by Pyramid Books in 1961 Additional resources -
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Compare to the smart bullet from Runaway (1985), by Michael Crichton and the roving bombs from Manly Wade Wellman's 1941 story The Lost Rocket Some of them are fancy:
Compare to the electro-bullets from Pirates of the Gorm (1932) by Nat Schachner.
The one who had spoken, also a Venusian, was an enormous fat man whose large belly shimmied like gelatin when he shifted his footing. He wore a silver coin-studded black leather belt almost a foot wide. Two ivory handled atomic automatics snuggled in holsters attached to the belt.
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