A Man Ahead of My Times

Scientists have developed a metamaterial to bend light waves around an object, potentially making an object invisible. It doesn’t work well, yet, and only works for microwaves, but it’s a step in the right direction. Years ago I wrote a short story about an assassin who wore a material that worked in almost the exact same way as this stuff.

The relevant passage:

The laser impacts hadn’t penetrated Heron's suit, but they had overloaded the light channels wherever they hit. There were circular burn marks–about the size of quarters–at the precise points where the focused light had touched him. Where the channels had overloaded from trying to conduct the laser light around him, there were triangular, rainbow patterns like oil slicks.