New SF and Guns!

I just started a new WIP. It's an actual science fiction novel. I pitched the idea at my agent, and she liked it. But I haven't written SF in years. Jeez, I think OFFSPRING in The Silent Empire series was the last one, and that was fifteen years ago!

Now I'm back to it. Space! Ships! Aliens! Laser b--

No.

Weirdly, I can't imagine laser or beam weapons in this universe I'm creating. I don't know why. I have a number of other SF ideas. But the beam weapons stubbornly refuse to exist.

I'll just have to get along with bullets, flechette guns, missiles, grenades, nuclear weapons. Amazing how many ways there are to kill someone.

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