Tag Archives: sci-fi

Say Hello to My Little Friend

The XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System, firing 25mm air-bursting shells up to 2,300 feet. What’s so good about this little rifle-sized grenade launcher, you say? Oh, nothing much, only that it can take out hidden targets. Hidden, out of sight ones. Like, now you don’t see it, now you do. In flames. This baby […]

How Far Away Is That Galaxy?

Most of my literary science fiction experience has been in the realm of Star Wars novels I am sorry to say. This hasn’t done anything for my copiousness. But it made me aware of a pet peeve I have regarding science fiction. It always annoyed me, when I delved into the Star Wars universe, that […]