Mel Foster

The Zap Gun Mel Foster

In this biting satire, the eastern and western governments have managed an elaborate ruse, wherein each side comes up with increasingly outlandish doomsday weapons-weapons that don't work. But when aliens invade, the top designers of each side have to come together to make a real doomsday device, if they don't kill each other first. With its combination of romance, espionage, and alien invasion, The Zap Gun skewers the military-industrial complex in a way as relevant today as it was at the height of the Cold War.