Death Rays and the Popular Media, 1876-1939: A Study of Directed Energy Weapons in Fact, Fiction and Film (Paperback)

from twolfe360

Death Rays and the Popular,1879-1939 By William J. Fanning Jr. If you want the historical background on death rays this is the book for you. It is as one reviewer put it the author was exhaustive in his research on actual accounts of death ray research. So much so that the it becomes more and mor...

from hredwards

I received this book through the Early Reviewers program and thought the subject seemed interesting. As a fan of old science fiction and horror movies and also old radio shows and science fiction novels I thought this might be ideally suited to my reading tastes. It is an extremely well researche...

from yoyogod

Like anyone with more than a passing interest in such things, I had heard the story that Tesla was supposed to have invented a death ray, but until I read this book, I didn't realize just how many other people were also rumored (or claimed) to have built the things. This book is full of people, i...

from mattdocmartin

Informative, if at times repetitive, story of death rays in popular media , as the title suggests. Amazing to see just how pervasive it seemed to be, but, in an age of such amazing creators as Tesla, odder things could have happened. If you want to really get into this subject, this book would be...

from RandyStafford

Let's play a game. Which of the three quotes below is from a piece of pulp science fiction? " ... death ray that will bring down airplanes, halt tanks on the battlefields, ruin automobile motors and spread a curtain of death like the gas clouds of the recent war." "At one hundred kilometers, all ...