num_pages: 258
description: Scaldingly sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic, THE ZAP GUN is Dick's remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions - Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope that they can create a weapon to save the world, a task made all the more difficult by Lars falling in love with Lilo, even as he knows she's trying to kill him.
language: English
title: The Zap Gun
titlecomplete: The Zap Gun
characters: Oral Giocomini, Marshal Paponovich, Mr. Lars Powderdry, Henry Morris, Surley G. Febbs and the entire population of earth in the 21st century, General Nitz, along with the Sirius Slavers, Vincent Klug, Miss Lilo Topchev, Lucky Bagman
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, War, American, Audiobook, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 2538
publisher: Gollancz