stunner n.
SF Encyclopedia
Weaponry
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1941
C. M. Kornbluth
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Armament, every first-class operative own a hand-gun and shells. Most of them carry illegal personal electric stunners.
Fire-Power in Cosmic Science-Fiction July 12/2 -
1961
Andre Norton
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Chambriss carried a needler, Starns was unarmed except for a small protection stunner, his tri-dee box slung on his chest by well-worn carrying straps.
Star Hunter 32
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1964
William R. Burkett, Jr.
The scope’s crosshairs shifted to the nearer robot’s right hand. In those steel fingers reposed a silvery, fragile-looking gun—a stunner. And each of the others were similarly armed. So if the Llralans had sent them after him, they had not been able—or had not chosen—to override their inbuilt inability to permanently harm human beings. If spotted and shot at, the worst that could come of it was stun-shock and capture.
in Analog Science Fiction/Fact Aug. 69/2
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1965
Frank Herbert
In the flashing instant Hawat had time to see they were Sardaukar, hard faces set in battle frenzy, that they were unshielded and each carried a knife in one hand, a stunner in the other.
in Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction Jan. 24/2
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1970
Poul Anderson
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I’ll issue them weapons, stunner type only.
Tau Zero (1973) 70
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1978
Poul Anderson
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Each had a holstered sidearm: slugthrower, not stunner.
Avatar (1981) 89
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1981
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Terry Pratchett
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When he had wiped the blood out of his eyes she was looking down at him and holding a stunner.
Strata 13 -
1983
John Varley
Shortly after the twonky alarm, one of your girls lost her stunner on the plane.
Millennium ii. 19
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1993
My cheeks still burned from the stunner. A pissmop emerged from the shadows, snuffling toward Ifraim’s body, but his urine was mingled with his blood.
In Cube i. 14
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2007
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Allen Steele
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I saw that the warrant officer had returned, his right hand resting upon a stunner holstered in his belt.
Galaxy Blues in Asimov’s Science Fiction Oct.–Nov. 197
Research requirements
antedating 1941
Earliest cite
C. M. Kornbluth 'Fire-Power'
Research History
Edward Bornstein submitted a cite from a 1967 reprint of William Burkett's "Sleeping Planet".Mike Christie confirmed the cite in the original 1964 magazine appearance.
Enoch Forrester submitted a cite from a reprint of C. M. Kornbluth's "Fire-Power"; Mike Christie verified it in the original 1941 magazine version (written under his "S. D. Gottesman" pseudonym).
Mike Christie submitted a cite from a 1962 reprint of Andre Norton's 1961 "Catseye".
Mike Christie submitted a cite from a 1990 reprint of Dan Simmons' 1989 "Hyperion".
Mike Christie submitted a cite from a 1981 reprint of Poul Anderson's 1978 "The Avatar".
Mike Christie submitted a 1965 cite from Frank Herbert's "The Prophet of Dune".
Ethan Merritt submitted a cite from a 1968 reprint of Andre Norton's "Star Hunter"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1961 first edition.
Clive Shergold submitted a 1981 cite from Terry Pratchett.
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