{"product_id":"books-islands-of-space-by-john-w-campbell","title":"Islands of Space","description":"\u003cp\u003eArcot, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670362382609,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781434499929.jpg?v=1781511069","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-islands-of-space-by-john-w-campbell","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}