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"...in fifty years, do you believe that people will be recognizably human?"
- Greg Bear
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| Plague Weapons | ||
| The use of biological warfare. |
There is just a sentence here.
| Is war possible in view of modern inventions — asphyxiating shells capable of being projected a distance of 60 miles, an electric spark of 90 miles, that can at one stroke annihilate a battalion; to say nothing of the plague, the cholera, the yellow fever, that the belligerents might spread among their antagonists mutually, and which would in a few days destroy the greatest armies?" |
| Technovelgy from In the Year 2889,
by Michel Verne. Published by The Forum in 1889 Additional resources -
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Compare to miasma shells from Le Vingtième Siècle: La Vie Électrique (1892) by Albert Robida and biological warfare from The War of the Worlds (1898) by HG Wells.
Thanks to Mike Cimerian for pointing this out.
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