“Project Plowshare. Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces"

1965-67 Dick, Philip K[indred] (1928-82). "Project Plowshare. Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces." Worlds of Tomorrow 3. 4 - 5 (16 - 17) (November 1965 - January 1966): 6-81; 6-65. Rpt. as The Zap Gun. Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces. New York: Pyramid, 1967. The copyright page of the book gives the title of the first publication as “Operation Plowshare”, but it is as given here. Merril

Dystopia brought about by world disarmament combined with the continued manufacture of weapons to keep the world economy going.