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The Ultimate Weapon

John Campbell

The Ultimate Weapon

Original publication
1936
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
196
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Science Fiction
Translated from
English

Book summary

An American science-fiction novel from 1936. In a future where humans live on Earth, Mars and Venus, Buck Kendall, an officer of the Interplanetary Patrol and a physicist, is attacked near Pluto by a giant ship that leaves faster than light. His superiors believe in pirates; he understands that the enemy comes from another star. Driven out by Mira, their unstable sun, this people is looking for a new home, and its fleet is advancing on the solar system. Kendall searches for a weapon to stop it. A space adventure with physics at the heart of the action.

The plot

A giant ship appears near Pluto. Buck Kendall, an officer of the space police, is on patrol near Pluto. A giant ship appears out of nowhere and attacks him. Buck barely escapes. He saw that ship leave faster than…

The world of the book

Humans on every planet. In this future, humans live on Earth, Mars and Venus, and stations guard the moons of Jupiter. Far away, an alien people live around Mira, a giant star that really exists. Its heat changes…

The author

John W. Campbell, 1910 – 1971. The son of an engineer, John W. Campbell was born in 1910 near New York. At 18, while studying at MIT, he was already selling his science fiction stories to a magazine. With a degree in…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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