{"product_id":"islands-of-space-by-john-w-campbell-science-fiction-adventure-9781603122153","title":"Islands of Space by John W. Campbell, Science Fiction, Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe concept was simple; to make it plausible wasn't -- unless you were John Campbell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- P. Schuyler Miller, \u003cem\u003eAstounding Science Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn W. Campbell first started writing in 1930 when his first short story, \u003cem\u003eWhen the Atoms Failed, \u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1937 he became the editor of \u003cem\u003eAstounding Stories\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eAnalog.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aegypan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781603122153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d","brand":"John W. Campbell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52072254079157,"sku":"9781603122153","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b83f8ece-8114-439f-9309-727779992d0e.jpg?v=1764688223","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/islands-of-space-by-john-w-campbell-science-fiction-adventure-9781603122153","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}