space-lines

Updated: June 3, 2025

In that energy walls, doorway, and space-lines, as well as most of the hexans, vanished utterly. But the beam could not be used again. Every surviving enemy had hurled himself frantically into the thickest ranks of the police and the battle raged fiercer than ever. It did not last long. The ends of the column had already closed in.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Spacehounds of IPC