The Zen Gun

Philip K. Dick Award: Best Novel nominee (1983).

A novel about:

The absolutely ultimate weapon that can ever exist...
The sub-human who found it and tried to use it...
The beasts who manned humanity's last star fleet...
The widening rip in the space-time continuum...
The brief cosmic empire of the pigs...
The theory of gravitational recession...
The super-samurai who served the zen-gunner...
The colonial girl who defied the galactic empire...

And many more "nova" ideas from the author of whom Michael Moorcock said, "There is no one else to match him."