(urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe

[David Stockhoff]

Why, that's almost steampunk!

On 5/1/2011 4:20 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 4:02 PM, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  wrote:
>> You could have said death-ray guns. They were "invented" in the twenties, I
>> think.
> Actually, I've been reading the 1897 serialized novel, _Edison's
> Conquest of Mars_
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%27s_Conquest_of_Mars on Project
> Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1515336&pageno=1
>
> Besides electrical spaceships, Thomas Edison also invents radiation
> guns that 'vibrate' at frequencies which dissociate atoms -
> disintegrators. Seem like death-ray guns to me!
>


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