“No longer are laser guns the stuff of Hollywood and Strategic Defense Initiative fantasy. The Pentagon inside of a decade could be armed with such a beam weapon….”
— Oakland Tribune, October 19, 2003
“You are the one, Neo.”
— The Matrix
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Professor Paula J. Lynch plopped her duffel bag on the steel deck and waited. The space station’s airlock wheezed open in slow motion.
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