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"I do think there is a link in that in both cases, writing fiction or writing a computer program, at any given moment you're focusing on a very specific and particular thing—one word, one line of code, whatever."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Light-Sword | ||
| A laser tuned for use as a cutting tool. |
Conflict arises on the Ringworld, and Louis Wu has need for training received earlier in his 200 year long life.
| Light-swords, laser weapons, had een used on all the worlds. Louis's training was a century old, and the war he had trained for hadn't happened after all. But the rules were too simple to forget.
The slower the swing, the deeper the cut. |
| From Ringworld,
by Larry Niven. Published by Ballantine in 1970 Additional resources -
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More rules for fighting with a light-sword may be found in the book.
This is a similar concept to the lightsaber of Star Wars fame; the earliest reference to something like this that I can find is the force-field penknife by Isaac Asimov.
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