Optek

While the overall product is a perfectly ample analog for a traditional guitar teacher in most aspects, what Optek has done is truly craft a system that tailors learning to the needs of the pupil and provides adequate hand-holding while still affording the opportunity to feel like a developing musician as opposed to a clumsy student.

Wired Top Stories 2009

The first Optek bullet ricocheted off stone by my face.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

Midday, and the first Optek shots began wanging off the stone around us, and the shadow of my blimp drew above.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

A fusillade sounding like the full fifty-round clip of an Optek slammed into the slope just ahead of us.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

The barrel of Tholan's Optek was pointing straight at my forehead.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

Lost in some perverse fantasy, Tameera lovingly inspected the displays of her Optek rifle.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

Tholan's Optek crashed and I saw the explosive exit wound open in the creature's jade green torso — a flower of yellow and pink.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

He unhitched his pack, drew out her Optek rifle, and handed it over.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

One scything claw knocked Tameera's Optek spinning away and made a sound like a knife across porcelain as it scraped stone.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

It was hanging over the curved fibrous bough of a walker tree, great holes ripped through its body by Optek bullets.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006