Questions tagged [force-field]
For questions about force fields in works of science fiction and fantasy.
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Humans try to help aliens deactivate their defensive barrier
I read this short story in the 90s, it was in either a magazine or an anthology and probably written much earlier.
Humans were expanding in space and found a race of friendly aliens. Meeting them ...
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Can Atreides' sonic weapons penetrate the Holtzman shield?
In Lynch's Dune, House Atreides secretly developed sonic weapons and trained elite troopers to use them. The emperor feared of Atreides' sonic weapons and therefore conspired with House Harkonnen to ...
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Film about people in a rural area trapped behind a force field
I remember watching a film in the late 70s or early 80s about people in a rural area who were trapped in a force field and could not escape. There were scenes of them digging out dirt along the edge ...
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Short story about a man trying to invent force field, but fails and someone else builds a better one
Short story could be from 1960-1980s. In English.
Scientists are frantically working in a lab trying to develop a impenetrable force field.
They have created one that does not use much power, but it ...
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Is there a faction using the Lasgun / Shield reaction?
Just rewatched the new Dune movie and had to explain to a friend why melee combat is a thing. I then started wondering: this could very well be used as an offensive weapon. Emphasis by me:
Lasguns ...
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Looking for a story, from maybe the 1960's, in which an experimental world is rapidly evolved to solve problems [duplicate]
My memory is unreliable. but... What I recall is a story about someone who develops life from scratch in a small contained laboratory vessel, then accelerates evolution super fast until the life forms ...
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Which was the first story to feature force fields?
In science fiction series and movies like Star Trek, Star Wars, The war of the worlds, Independence Day (1996) , Macross (1982) , spaceships and/or robots use force fields to protect the mechas from ...
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