Vargor points a "stun pistol" at Saunders. (Dan Dare used to have paralyzing guns.)
"The gun flashed. There was a crashing in Saunders' head and he tumbled into illimitable darkness." (p. 276)
This is an appropriate place to end for this evening, with twelve pages of the story remaining. Have you ever felt your consciousness go out like a candle flame? Once, after being given a general anaesthetic, I tried to cling to consciousness but almost immediately felt an irresistible force push me down into impenetrable darkness. I was aware of the moment when my consciousness was extinguished. And it would not have returned if I had died under the anaesthetic.
Vargor cannot bring himself to kill his rival, Saunders, so he stuns him, binds him and sends him off into the future in the time projector. Further adventures await.
3 comments:
Yes, that's a good description of anaesthetic.
Kaor, Paul!
I like the idea of stun guns. It would be esp. useful for policemen, giving them an alternative to lethal force, where that is possible, in subduing violent criminals.
Ad astra! Sean
Vargor's actions remind me of this:
Vernor Vinge wrote a few stories in a future in which "Bobbles" are a technology. A Bobble is a spherical region in which time is stopped inside until the Bobble collapses after a preset time and whatever or whoever is inside is released. One crime this makes possible is to bobble your victim for some *long* time. The usual punishment is to bobble the perpetrator so his bobble collapses merely hours or days after the victim's bobble and another bobble is set up to provide weapons to the victim to do whatever he pleases to the perpetrator.
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