For today’s blog I have decided to post links to two stories that may provide inspiration. The first is “The Wabbler”, written by Murray Leinster and published in 1944. The story is about an antropomorphized robot weapon. When you read of the Wabbler’s brain ticking, it is worth keeping in mind that at the time […]
“They look mighty odd, I’ll grant you, but they have the eyes of a hawk and the nose of a bloodhound. The poachers and smugglers hate them!” The Maynard Menschenjäger is a distinctive model of robot armoured tactical system (RATS) cybershell. Its body is a bi-convex disc that is triangular rather than circular in plan […]
Disc-shaped grenades date back to at least the First World War. They did not mature as a weapon system until several advances in technology had occurred. The first of these was improvements in explosives. More powerful explosives such as octonitrocubane allow for better use to be made of the saucer grenade’s limited capacity. The second […]