[solo] The Ultimate Weapon by John Campbell - philc

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The Ultimate Weapon, by John Wood Campbell. Jr. (1910 - 1971)

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Volunteers outside the USA: John Wood Campbell. Jr. died in 1971. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 50 years; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
A rip-roaring space adventure from the 1930's when science wasn't so nit-picky about details by the legendary John Campbell. A race in another solar system many light years away from Earth is looking for some solar system with a sun more stable than their highly erratic one. They discover our nice neat little system and decide to move. With faster than light drive and much more advanced science and weapons it looks like a walk over by the away team. But they make the mistake of showing their hand just a bit too soon to earth's most amazing genius and inventor. The fight is on and it is bloody but our hero, using desperate means and a lot of uncertainty finally develops the ultimate weapon, And not a second too soon. Listen and enjoy this early SF story. - (Summary by phil chenevert)
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23790

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Someone has volunteered to DPL this project.
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Post by Kalamareader »

Hi Phil,

I am here just awaiting a MW and submissions. :thumbs:

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Kalamareader wrote: September 7th, 2021, 1:26 pm Hi Phil,

I am here just awaiting a MW and submissions. :thumbs:

Wayne
Thanks Wayne. I will be setting his up tonight.
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The first part of this exciting saga is ready for listening. :D
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Post by Kalamareader »

Great start Phil.

Looking forward to more. :D

Only one small correction:

1:25 He had the body and muscles of a dock navvy, which Nature started out to make. You said Navy. Navvy is pronounced ˈna-vē the first syllable is pronounced like the middle syllable in banana. Deff: "a man who is employed to do unskilled physical work, usually building or making roads."

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Kalamareader wrote: September 21st, 2021, 3:45 pm Great start Phil.

Looking forward to more. :D

Only one small correction:

1:25 He had the body and muscles of a dock navvy, which Nature started out to make. You said Navy. Navvy is pronounced ˈna-vē the first syllable is pronounced like the middle syllable in banana. Deff: "a man who is employed to do unskilled physical work, usually building or making roads."

Wayne
I never knew how to pronounce that! thanks Wayne. :thumbs: Fixed it.
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philchenevert wrote: September 21st, 2021, 8:07 pm
Kalamareader wrote: September 21st, 2021, 3:45 pm Great start Phil.

Looking forward to more. :D

Only one small correction:

1:25 He had the body and muscles of a dock navvy, which Nature started out to make. You said Navy. Navvy is pronounced ˈna-vē the first syllable is pronounced like the middle syllable in banana. Deff: "a man who is employed to do unskilled physical work, usually building or making roads."

Wayne
I never knew how to pronounce that! thanks Wayne. :thumbs: Fixed it.
Great corrections! Part I PLOK :thumbs:

The only reason I was familiar with it was that 50 years ago when I lived in England it was still a popular description of a large menial labourer ( :lol: ).

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Great job Phil,

Sections 2, 3, and 4 are all PLOK :thumbs:

Section 5 has a couple of things to look at:

:24 simply a specially designed accumulator, You said defined

:35 Behind this was a curious, paraboloid projector . You said parabolic. Subtle but real difference.

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Section 5 fixed.

I confess that I understand very little of the technical talk in this story but got very excited about the fight as it grows more nasty and brutal. These aliens certainly are very smart and don't crumble when the hero waves his wand. They counterpunch very well. Worthy opponents indeed! If I am mispronouncing an of the physics or electrical terms let me know. Way over my head. It is funny though how he assumes they will be still using morse code dot and dash at this time.
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OK, the whole story is there now. Whew! everything turned out right in the end. :shock:
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philchenevert wrote: September 28th, 2021, 4:05 pm OK, the whole story is there now. Whew! everything turned out right in the end. :shock:
Well, that's good to hear!! :D

I found a little time to listen tonight and have some comments:

In Section 5, did you decided not to correct the second note of mine, parabolic and paraboloid?

Section 6
5:46 I can, and do it in this, charge a certain quantity, You said change


Section 7
2:01.5 I can make it mighty tight though, if I make my surface a perfect parabola. Repeat.

3:01.5 In the metallic molecule state, You said molecular Close, your call

7:51.5 "Now. Keep out from in front of that thing In this sentence the is a kind of stumble in the middle, plus you left of the word Now at the beginning.

15:10.5 Even in their super-fast ships, nearly three and a half weeks passed before the sun they sought, At the end, I heard thought. If I am wrong, kindly disregard this message.

18:13 but they could be guarded against You said would:28 not thirty feet from them as they felt the sudden resistance of the magnetic shields. You said a.

19:22.5 Easily the greater ship chased them down, till only floating dust, and a few small pieces of— At the end of this there are stutters.

Section 8
16:28 Not more than a ten-second exposure could be endured by any one ship, before it must retreat. You said would


Section 9

5:37-6:02 I can't really follow this whole section. Either there is a repeat, or skipping of lines or something. Go ahead and listen to it and see if you can figure it out, or am I just crazy.

9:37 There was no metal in these special suits, even the oxygen tanks were made of synthetic plastics of tremendous strength. I heard stress. Again, I may be wrong.

Boy, he sure is getting long winded, chapter lengthwise1

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Boy, he sure is getting long winded, chapter lengthwise1
It's the strange physics 'explanations' that he lectures on and on about and the reader (me) is not interested in. I was just wondering how the hell he was going to outwit these guys; get on with the story! He does build suspense though.
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Post by philchenevert »

Wayne, thanks for your precise notes, they are a great help!!!

Section 5: I uploaded the wrong file. it is now paraboloid.
Section 6: now charge is correct
Section 7: hopefully all the repeats removed and words fixed and it is OK now.
Secton 8: Would replaced with would.
Sect ion 9: the confusing repeat removed but it sounded like Strength to me so I left it alone. :D
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philchenevert wrote: September 29th, 2021, 2:04 pm Wayne, thanks for your precise notes, they are a great help!!!

Section 5: I uploaded the wrong file. it is now paraboloid.
Section 6: now charge is correct
Section 7: hopefully all the repeats removed and words fixed and it is OK now.
Secton 8: Would replaced with would.
Sect ion 9: the confusing repeat removed but it sounded like Strength to me so I left it alone. :D
Sections 5-9 are now all PLOK :thumbs:

Great job with the corrections.

Will get to the 'Rest of the Story' soon.

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