《Let There be Darkness》中的设定的收集（1）(29)

（力场屏会反弹动能武器的子弹，如果在狭小的地方用动能武器对力场屏射击，可能会导致动能武器的子弹在力场屏和周围的墙壁上反弹，从而杀死持有动能武器的攻击者。）
4. "One thing bolsters your story," he said finally: "your weapons. I've seen what they do. With that blaster and force-screen, one man might defeat a small army single-handed. And even your pocket radio is an electronic marvel -- our best technicians could never hope to duplicate it.
“有一件事支持你的故事，”他最后说：“你的武器。我见过它们的作用。有了那个爆能枪和力屏，一个人可能单枪匹马打败一支小军队。甚至你的袖珍收音机也是一个电子奇迹——我们最好的技术人员永远无法复制它。

【气象武器】
1. At last they emerged from the building through a shattered steel gate, and Taggart gazed out at a panorama of destruction -- the wreckage of what had been a city. As far as he could see sprawled a broken jumble of concrete and brick and steel. Everywhere lay the fragments of civilization: splintered telephone poles, broken glass, tangles of wire, pipes, and cables. In the distance a huge metal bridge sagged in twisted ruin against the sky; nearer at hand a crumpled water-tower sprawled on its side. All around rose jagged stubs of walls that had once been buildings. The sky was of a strange, saffron-gray hue such as Taggart had never seen before, and the air seemed charged with an electric tension as if a great storm had just passed. Distant thunder rolled upon the air and far away, along the horizon, a band of black, boiling, lightning-shot clouds was slowly receding. At each flash of lightning Taggart thought he could glimpse ranks of great, pointed metal towers arranged along the base of that beetling cloud-band.