Life After Death - A Novel

The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes, blasted off on an intergalactic search for defenses against the invaders of Earth and all her allies.
World after world was visited, secret after secret unleashed, and turned to mighty weapons of intense force--and still the Thessian enemy seemed to grow in power and ferocity.
Mighty battles between huge space armadas were but skirmishes in the galactic war, as the invincible aliens savagely advanced and the Earth team hurled bolt after bolt of pure ravening energy--until it appeared that the universe itself might end in one final flare of furious torrential power....

This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by John W. Campbell, which is now, at last, again available to you.

Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Ultimate Weapon:

She was about thirty million miles off Pluto, just beginning to get in touch with some of the larger mining stations out there, when Buck Kendalls turn at the controls came along.

...As soon as she got within ten million miles of the little tender, she began getting Coles signals, and within twelve hours had reached the tiny thing, located it, and picked it up.

...If you invented a neutron gun which could kill through tungsten walls without injuring anything within, a system of accelerating a ship that didnt affect the inhabitants of that ship, and a means of exceeding the speed of light, all within a few months of each other, would you become a pirate?

... If I didnt have a cent before, Id have relief from work by selling it for a few hundred millions-and Id sell it mighty easily too, for an invention like that is worth an incalculable sum.

A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention....First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets....The arrival of an unseen dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end of civilization in this Solar System....These were the three challenges that tested the skill and minds of the brilliant team of scientist-astronauts Arcot, Wade, and Morey. Their initial adventures are a classic of science-fiction which first brought the name of their author, John W. Campbell, into prominence as a master of the inventive imagination.