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The Ultimate Weapon (1936) by John W. Campbell is a classic Golden Age science fiction novel about an alien invasion from the star Mira. Set four centuries in the future, Lieutenant Buck Kendall — a brilliant physicist — races to develop revolutionary technologies including atomic power and a weapon harnessing the Uncertainty Principle to save humanity. A key work by the legendary editor of Astounding Science Fiction, exemplifying the lone-genius-scientist trope.