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  • Questions would undoubtedly be raised as to how the human, resident among the Tier, had managed to obtain and conceal an AAnn handweapon for so long.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • She scooped up a handweapon to replace her own, and made record time to the rendezvous with S'Tal.

    The Fate of the Phoenix Culbreath, Myrna 1979

  • Whirling quickly, she saw a guard standing in the doorway with some unfamiliar handweapon pointed directly at her.

    Trek to Madworld Goldin, Stephen 1978

  • Calmly he unwrapped a bundle of rags and took out an old Plan Police handweapon.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • Suddenly its gun turrets spurted flame, no mere handweapon beam but thunderbolts that knocked down walls.

    The High Crusade Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1960

  • Someone had shot him with a beamgun, that nasty little handweapon that delivered in one powerful, short jolt the same energy that was doled out in measured doses over a period of minutes in a standard nerve-burner.

    But, I Don't Think Randall Garrett 1957

  • I didn’t attend the Steampunk Ball but did see some of the costumes, like the chap with the multi-barrelled handweapon, and the rather snazzy ocular device complete with leather headstraps.

    Odyssey Eastercon – After The Hurly-Burly part 2 « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2010

  • How does an individual with this kind of proven accuracy where he hits targets in moving vehicles where he’s driving with one hand and firing a handweapon with the other and he’s not supposed to be aware of his personal skills?

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • How does an individual with this kind of proven accuracy where he hits targets in moving vehicles where he’s driving with one hand and firing a handweapon with the other and he’s not supposed to be aware of his personal skills?

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • How does an individual with this kind of proven accuracy where he hits targets in moving vehicles where he’s driving with one hand and firing a handweapon with the other and he’s not supposed to be aware of his personal skills?

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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