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* [[Meaningful Name|Hiro Protagonist's]] weapon-of-choice in ''[[Snow Crash]]'' is a katana. At one point, Hiro's use of the katana actually leads to a standoff when he's able to find cover that the gun-wielding mooks he's fighting with can't shoot through, but they're all too far away for him to attack. He actually taunts his adversaries that they can take as long as they like because "Katanas don't run out of bullets."
* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|The January Dancer]]'', the owners of the ammunition factory try to avert this by burning it down and then parting for opposite sides of the civil war. This means that when an outside force intervenes, bringing a gun to the knife fight, she tramples all resistance.
* Averted ''and'' played straight in one sequence at the end of the third novel of the ''[[Sten]]'' series of novels. The traitorous leader of the coup attempt is confronting the Emperor where he is attempting to hide in the engine room of his personal flagship, and draws a ceremonial sword with the intention of slicing the Emperor into pieces with it slowly. The Emperor then smiles and demonstrates that engine rooms are a great place to scavenge crowbars, which are very handy at smashing ceremonial swords. The traitor then pulls a gun, and it would have been a very short novel had the Emperor's chief bodyguard not caught up at that moment.
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