Campbell in The Black Star Passes in 1930. The variant "ray projector" was used by John W. All depends on the air-scouts, and we must hold our positions until the battle-planes arrive. Early science fiction often described or depicted raygun beams making bright light and loud noise like lightning or large electric arcs.Īccording to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the word "ray gun" was first used by Victor Rousseau in 1917, in a passage from The Messiah of the Cylinder: Īll is not going well, Arnold: the ray-rods are emptying fast, and our attack upon the lower level of the wing has failed.
Science fiction during the 1920s described death rays. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1898). A very early example of a raygun is the Heat-Ray featured in H.
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