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Summary: A World Without Guns?...Doubt It!
Review: This novel is typical of the influence of the great master of Sci-Fi himself and up incoming star Michael P Kube-McDowell.Although it is a little long winded to read it does eventually pick up a storyline that totally goes of in a typical Arthur C. Clarke direction and leaves you quite chilled at the story's end. The basic story is of a handfull of scientists in the not too distant future, who quite accidently stumble across a way of disabling the entire World's stock of fire arms. Using electrons to ignite gunpowder. Soon the discovery reaches the White House and the chance to disarm the world of weapons is undertaken... If it was only that simple and in doing so the Trigger causes more distruction. However the same scientists later find a way around this and soon the Trigger, in a more safer form is released onto the mass market. Soon the the enevidable uprising of those who think it is their right to bare arms (as it does say in the Constitution) takes over the storyline. A high paced conclusion is in order and that totally Aurthur C. Clarke twisted ending that he is famous for leaves you hanging and thinking, "Maybe having the world armed with primitive guns is not such a bad idea after all." sheesh!
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