I was surprised to read this right in the first line:
[quote]A stone burner is hands-down the most destructive weapon in the Dune universe, [b]and maybe in all of sci-fi[/b].[/quote]

I don't want to be a stickler about universe-imploding weapons and other such litterary nonsense, but from the realistic weponry availlable to sf readers, the stone burner isn't "hands-down the most destructive weapon".

I'm only refering to hard-sf ideas on weapons here, not to ideas found in more liberal texts.

Here are some ideas on very powerful science-based weapons found in fiction:
[i]Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe:[/i]
- the ack-am projector
- the gravity soliton generator found in one of the cache weapons
[i]Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Universe:[/i]
- the gravity "guns" of the Xeelee
- the unstopable weapons used in the Photino Birds/Xeelee wars, mainly entire galaxies guided over millions of years to collide with other galaxies, or the neutron star that has been accelerated over a million years and sent on a course to collide with the Ring

Any ideas? Interested in pursuing this conversation?
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