The device is attached to an Investigator, a mobile remote-controlled construction built by Slick Henry, one of the novel's main characters. Btw, a thermite lance appears in William Gibson's novel Mona Lisa Overdrive, see ch.35, The Factory War.can we get some examples? -Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 ( talk) 18:42, 1 February 2009 (UTC) Maybe he'd have his characters wielding them as close-range weapons.

But who has EVER done that? I can't begin to imagine who would pick a name for his fictional projectile weapon that didn't remotely sound like a projectile.

Anthony Appleyard 20:32, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

But it confuses real-world people reading science fiction, growing up thinking that a thermic lance is a sort of raygun.In Sci-Fi it doesn't matter if there is already a real world object with that name, it still makes sense in the fictional universe created, you can call it whatever you want. I tend to agree, I mean a science fiction writer would not be misusing the term 'Thermal Lance' in a story if he made it into a Ray-Gun type weapon.Is it appropriate to say something a term is misused in science fiction? Cannot fiction writers appropriate or make up any term they want? 15:48, 6 February 2007, User:150.216.55.131.5 Deleting section Appearances in fiction.

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