Re: [GZG] [SG] Rapid Fire antipersonnel plasma gun?

["John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/28/06, Stephen Bond <daibaka2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Allan said:
> >"Flamers" are a part of the sci-fi genre (largely thanks to GW), so I
> >guess that's where the terror aspect comes in.
>
> I'd suggest that the career of "Flamers" in sci-fi probably goes back at
> least as far as a certain Ridley Scott movie about a starship named
> "Nostromo" and its sequel. As far as GW is concerned, I suspect that they
> inherited it (along with bolters, Red Redemptionists, et al) from Brian
> Ansell's Laserburn rules. Not too sure when they were originally published,
> but I'd figure they were early 80's at least.

Actually, the earliest reference I can find to a 'flamer' in my memory
comes from a book published in the 1950s.

Starship Troopers.  You might have heard of it.

John
--
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani
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