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A classic science-fiction weapon, particularly in British and American science-fiction novels and films, is the raygun. A very early example of a raygun is the Heat-Ray featured in H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (1898). [2] [3]
This category contains individual weapons that are specifically used in works of science fiction. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Pages in category "Fictional energy weapons" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. BFG (weapon)
Science fiction weapons (5 C, 35 P) Fictional swords (37 P) Pages in category "Fictional weapons" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Science fiction during the 1920s described death rays. Early science fiction often described or depicted raygun beams making bright light and loud noise like lightning or large electric arcs . According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , [ 3 ] the word "ray gun" was first used by Victor Rousseau in 1917, in a passage from The Messiah of ...
Doomsday devices started becoming more common in science fiction in the 1940s and 1950s, due to the invention of nuclear weapons and the constant fear of total destruction. [6] A well-known example is in the film Dr. Strangelove (1964), where a doomsday device, based on Szilard and Kahn's ideas, is triggered by an incompletely aborted American ...
The Weapon Shops provide the populace with defensive weapons and an alternative legal system. The Isher/Weapon Shops novels are rare examples of Golden Age science fiction that explicitly discuss the right to keep and bear arms, specifically guns. Indeed, the motto of the Weapon Shops, repeated several times, is "The right to buy weapons is the ...
Strange and exotic weapons are a recurring feature or theme in science fiction. In some cases, weapons first introduced in science fiction have now become a reality. Other science fiction weapons, such as force fields and stasis fields, remain purely fictional and are often beyond the realms of known physical possibility.