Crimson Dark

And that's leaving out the flash-boiling of the cells in proximity to the beam.

Laser wounds should be messy.

I'm a big fan of hard SciFi. My favorite being Clarke's " Rendezvous With Rama ". Niven's early work (pre FTL perioed) in the Known Worlds is good stuff too. For movies, there is the excellent Moon starring Sam Rockwell and Outland starring Sean Connery. Both take very few liberties with the science...