"John Campbell's book was written as a sequel to "The Black Star
Passes" . . . and believe me, it was a world-beater in those days.
"Arcot, Wade, Morey, and their computer, Fuller, put together a
ship which will travel faster than light . . . they give us what
may have been the first space-warp drive. The concept was simple;
to make it plausible wasn't -- unless you were John Campbell.
"With this out-of-space drive they hightail it among the stars.
They locate the fugitive planets of the Black Star . . . find a
frozen cemetery-world of a lost race . . . then head out for
another galaxy . . . and wind up in a knock-down-drag-out
interplanetary war in the other galaxy."
-- P. Schuyler Miller, "Astounding Science Fiction"
* John W. Campbell first started writing in 1930 when his first
short story, "When the Atoms Failed," was accepted by a
science-fiction magazine. At that time he was twenty years old and
still a student at college. As the title of the story indicates, he
was even at that time occupied with the significance of atomic
energy and nuclear physics.
For the next seven years, Campbell, bolstered by a scientific
background that ran from childhood experiments, to study at Duke
University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote and
sold science-fiction, achieving for himself an enviable reputation
in the field.
In 1937 he became the editor of "Astounding Stories" magazine
and applied himself at once to the task of bettering the magazine
and the field of s-f writing in general. His influence on
science-fiction since then has been great. Today he still remains
as the editor of that magazine's evolved and redesigned successor,
"Analog."
General
| Imprint: |
Aegypan
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2007 |
| First published: |
April 2007 |
| Authors: |
John W. Campbell
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
152 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-60312-793-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Science fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-60312-793-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781603127936 |
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