John Campbell
The Ultimate Weapon
Layout
Format: PDF. Readable on any device.
- Title in Polish
- Ostateczna broń
- First published
- 1936
- Languages
- Polish and English
- Pages
- about 196
- Edition
- unabridged
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.
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