num_pages: 256
description: Scalding 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: Henry Morris, Miss Lilo Topchev, along with the Sirius Slavers, Oral Giocomini, Mr. Lars Powderdry, Vincent Klug, Marshal Paponovich, General Nitz, Lucky Bagman, Surley G. Febbs and the entire population of earth in the 21st century
genres: American, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels, War, Science Fiction Fantasy, 20th Century, Audiobook, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 2538
publisher: Vintage