Guns accurately portrayed in a book!

[MedGrl]

I've seen lots of threads here on THR consisting of rants about books, movies, TV shows, etc. that have glaring mistakes about guns. I was reading a new series of books I came across in the library by Laurel K. Hammilton. In it the main charector/narrator at one point talks about her semi-automatic pistol. a Lady Smith. She refers to her extera ammo as Magazines and plants herself in an iscosolese stance. Later in the books several other charactors have guns and while at the moment I can't remember what makes and modles were mentioned but they were all described properly. none were made to sound more thretening or pompus and all were used in realistic manners. Funny. I had to read science-fiction/fantasy to find realism...aint that a kick?

Any one here who enjoys sci-fi/fantasy might concider looking into the Merry Gentry series by Laurell K. Hammilton.

 

[SomeKid]

I had the same thing happen with a sci-fi series of my own. Normally they stick to futuristic things and whatnot, but one woman decided to make a crappy detective novel. While it wasn't what I like, I read it anyway, and she did a pretty good job on the gun front. (But she was making a few things up, like a pistol that was chambered in .70...) Not that I am complaining mind you, it was cool, and she even noted that unless you shoot certain places, pistols don't just magicly kill people. (After an assassin shoots a man with the .70 pistol, the man is wounded but not dead, the headshot with a .22 through an eye changes that though.) Too many people would have written about how it blew his arms and legs off. It was nice to see some realism.

 

[Firehand]

Hamilton has two series, that one and one with a character who's a necromancer and vampire-killer named Anita Blake; alternate-world series. She's pretty good about firearms in them.

 

[mp510]

From what I've noticed McNab generally describes them accurately in his literature (referring to the fiction stuff)

 

[Trebor]

The Anita Blake books are pretty good. The later books pretty much cross the line into porn though. Hamilton does make some firearms mistakes in the books, especially the early ones, but she tries to get it right.

 

[Hiaboo]

Yeah, Hamilton acutally consults a "expert" in an attempt to make things accurate in that department. That was mentioned in one of the forewords or whatever those things are before the stories start (not prologue) She's one of my favorite authors... I'm big into sci-fi and I've read all of her books.

 

[GrammatonCleric]

Accurate firearm portrayals in scifi

One of my personal favorite scifi authors John Ringo is pretty good about portraying firearms accurately in his books. He does go on a few unrealistic tears occasionally though. One book of his that I read entitled "When the Devil Dances", has a character mention a .65 caliber Desert Eagle. I realize that those don't exist yet, but the book was set in 2009. Who knows what IMI will be up to by then? Another thing about that scene in the book that amused me is that Tommy Sunday (the character making mention of the aforementioned handcannon) is described as a true giant of a man, and even HE would have trouble controlling such a monstrosity.