OT: Trying to remember a book name

[Rockwolf66]

I've heard of such a mine although I'm not quite sure of the official name for it. basically you pulled the pin and it shot out a bunch of tripwires. when someone tripped the wires it went off like a bouncing betty.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Rockwolf66

I've heard of such a mine although I'm not quite sure of the official name for it. basically you pulled the pin and it shot out a bunch of tripwires. when someone tripped the wires it went off like a bouncing betty.

Those I've heard of, but this was a near-future science fiction weapon in this book. The monomolecular wires basically shredded anyone in the blast area -- they sliced like a Traveller variable sword.

[Legbreaker]

So it damaged by shrapnel only and not blast?
How terribly boring!

[Muti]

You tried here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomolecular_wire

[pmulcahy11b]

Thanks, Muti, unfortunately none of the stories and books listed had descriptions that matched what I remember about the book. Interesting link, though; I had no idea that monomolecular wire was used in so many stories!

[Muti]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

I had no idea that monomolecular wire was used in so many stories!

Same for me

[Rainbow Six]

This is a wild stab in the dark, but I read a book called (I think) "Combat" about ten years ago (roughly) that was a collection of short stories by various well known authors of the techno thriller genre (can't remember all of them, but it did include Harold Coyle, Larry Bond, and Stephen Coonts - from what I can recall Coonts was sort of the editor in chief).

The reason I'm wondering if it might have been that was because all of the scenarios were set in the first decades of the 21st Century and included all sorts of future type technologies (which might have included the thread mine).