HK "shard pistol", Nemex autoloader with proprietary propellant, and Philips electromagnetic flechette gun (with field-reversal setting that would retrieve projectiles from people shot with it, presumably causing further damage and saving the user some ammo money) in Richard K. Morgan's "Altered Carbon".
Disposable Russian "Chain Gun" (it actually shot chains, if I recall correctly) in William Gibson's "Idoru" (or maybe it was "All Tomorrow's Parties").
The Stainless Steel Rat's .75 automatic (!). Funny that in Harry Harrison's Esperanto-speaking future near-utopia they still had non-metric caliber names. You'd expect it to be called "19mm".
The "Ballester-Molina" and "Cutts-Maudslay wind-up automatic carbines" in Gibson and Sterling's "The Difference Engine". I always pictured the "Ballester-Molina" ("the infernal thing had cocked itself") as some sort of automatic revolver like a Webley-Fosbery. Imagine my surprise when I got into real guns and found out there was such a thing, by name at least, but it was a grip safety-less 1911 knockoff.
Technically some of these aren't "firearms" per se, but I've tried to limit it to projectile weapons. Any others those not afraid to be exposed as geeks would care to mention?
Disposable Russian "Chain Gun" (it actually shot chains, if I recall correctly) in William Gibson's "Idoru" (or maybe it was "All Tomorrow's Parties").
The Stainless Steel Rat's .75 automatic (!). Funny that in Harry Harrison's Esperanto-speaking future near-utopia they still had non-metric caliber names. You'd expect it to be called "19mm".
The "Ballester-Molina" and "Cutts-Maudslay wind-up automatic carbines" in Gibson and Sterling's "The Difference Engine". I always pictured the "Ballester-Molina" ("the infernal thing had cocked itself") as some sort of automatic revolver like a Webley-Fosbery. Imagine my surprise when I got into real guns and found out there was such a thing, by name at least, but it was a grip safety-less 1911 knockoff.
Technically some of these aren't "firearms" per se, but I've tried to limit it to projectile weapons. Any others those not afraid to be exposed as geeks would care to mention?