Stories tagged “unrelatedish”

  • An Aside: I'm Only Gonna Axe You Once

    In the beginning, there was stone, and the first manufactured weapons were the spear and the ever-lasting axe, unless you count removing small twigs from a tree limb to make a club. We figured out throwing spears then bows and arrows. Shields came alon...

  • or, How Mankind's Oldest Weapon Just Won't Stop Cutting

    But composites and synthetic fibers and “active armor” essentially nixed the power of the gun in the hands of an infantryman. Guns now belonged mostly to vehicles and fortresses. Lasers and fusion came along, but never an effective, reliabl...