Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: W

John Schilling wrote:
> Depends on how narrowly you define "laser pistol".  But expecting
> firearms to be replaced by *something*, that's just common sense.
> It's almost certain that, within this century, we will be able to
> build hand-held laser weapons that are massively superior to ordinary
> pistols.  Whether they have the handgrip-and-barrel form factor of
> a "pistol", whether they will be called "laser pistols", I'm not
> sure.  I don't think it matters.

check <http://www.jessesword.com/sf>
for earliest use.
laser pistol:
1967 _The Rim-World Legacy_,by F.A.Javor p.128;
1967 _The Time Hoppers_,by Robert Silverberg p.144;
1969 _The Warlock in Spite of Himself_,by Christopher Stasheff p.267;
1973 _The Tin Angel_,by Ron Goulart p.22;
1976 _My Name is Legion_,by Roger Zelazny p.205;
1980 _The Eternity Brigade_,by Stephen Goldin p.14;
1981 _The Soul Eater_,by Mike Resnick p.8;
1982 _A Greater Infinity_,by Michael McCollum p.8;
1988 _Ivory_,by Mike Resnick p.311;
1990 _A Passage of Stars_,by Alis A.Rasmussen p.143;
1995 _The Forever Drug_,by Steve Perry p.203;
1996 _The Road Between the Worlds_,by Michael Moorcock p.235;
1999 _The Sea is Full of Stars_,by Jack L.Chalker p.61;
1999 _Priam's Lens_,by Jack L.Chalker p.281;
2003 _The Return of Santiago_,by Mike Resnick p.129;
2005 _Finders Keepers_,by Linnea Sinclair p.6.
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Sent by Douglas Winston on May 10,2008.