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Author: John Wood Campbell Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 9780345249609 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 307
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Eleven stories of science fiction adventure including The Last Evolution, The Invaders, Elimination, and Out of Night are prefaced by an essay on life in the future
Author: John Wood Campbell Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 9780345249609 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 307
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Eleven stories of science fiction adventure including The Last Evolution, The Invaders, Elimination, and Out of Night are prefaced by an essay on life in the future
Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062571966 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 619
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Hugo and Locus Award Finalist An Economist Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018 “An amazing and engrossing history...Insightful, entertaining, and compulsively readable.” — George R. R. Martin Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers—John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard—who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world. This remarkable cultural narrative centers on the figure of John W. Campbell, Jr., whom Asimov called “the most powerful force in science fiction ever.” Campbell, who has never been the subject of a biography until now, was both a visionary author—he wrote the story that was later filmed as The Thing—and the editor of the groundbreaking magazine best known as Astounding Science Fiction, in which he discovered countless legendary writers and published classic works ranging from the I, Robot series to Dune. Over a period of more than thirty years, from the rise of the pulps to the debut of Star Trek, he dominated the genre, and his three closest collaborators reached unimaginable heights. Asimov became the most prolific author in American history; Heinlein emerged as the leading science fiction writer of his generation with the novels Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land; and Hubbard achieved lasting fame—and infamy—as the founder of the Church of Scientology. Drawing on unexplored archives, thousands of unpublished letters, and dozens of interviews, Alec Nevala-Lee offers a riveting portrait of this circle of authors, their work, and their tumultuous private lives. With unprecedented scope, drama, and detail, Astounding describes how fan culture was born in the depths of the Great Depression; follows these four friends and rivals through World War II and the dawn of the atomic era; and honors such exceptional women as Doña Campbell and Leslyn Heinlein, whose pivotal roles in the history of the genre have gone largely unacknowledged. For the first time, it reveals the startling extent of Campbell’s influence on the ideas that evolved into Scientology, which prompted Asimov to observe: “I knew Campbell and I knew Hubbard, and no movement can have two Messiahs.” It looks unsparingly at the tragic final act that estranged the others from Campbell, bringing the golden age of science fiction to a close, and it illuminates how their complicated legacy continues to shape the imaginations of millions and our vision of the future itself. "Enthralling…A clarion call to enlarge American literary history.” — Washington Post “Engrossing, well-researched… This sure-footed history addresses important issues, such as the lack of racial diversity and gender parity for much of the genre’s history.” — Wall Street Journal “A gift to science fiction fans everywhere.” — Sylvia Nasar, New York Times bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind
Author: John W. Campbell Publisher: VolumesOfValue ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 724
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This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS THE BLACK STAR PASSES ISLANDS OF SPACE INVADERS FROM THE INFINITE THE ULTIMATE WEAPON
Author: John W Campbell Publisher: ISBN: 9788027309207 Category : Languages : en Pages : 716
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Contents: - Who Goes There? - The Mightiest Machine - The Incredible Planet: - The Incredible Planet - The Interstellar Search - The Infinite Atom - Arcot, Morey and Wade Trilogy - The Black Star Passes: - Piracy Preferred - Solarite - The Black Star Passes - Islands of Space - Invaders from the Infinite - The Ultimate Weapon - The Last Evolution
Author: John W. Campbell, Jr. Publisher: ISBN: 9781612872926 Category : Languages : en Pages : 208
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Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. One of the true grandmasters of sci-fi wrote the first novel, "When the Atoms Failed." John W. Campbell, Jr. was only about twenty years old when he wrote both "When the Atoms Failed" and its immediate follow-up, "The Metal Horde." These tales appeared in the January and April issues of Amazing Stories all the way back in 1930. Campbell was attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the time, and his knowledge and love of science is very apparent in both of these stories, which are rousing good space opera tales about invasions from outer space by seemingly unstoppable alien hordes. Since they are so closely linked, we present both of these works together as essentially one work, broken into two parts with chapter breaks throughout. The second novel is veteran sci-fi author Aladra Septama's "Dragons of Space." It all started so quietly--an incident here, an incident there: two men riding on horseback vanished in the middle of the night--no trace could be found; an aerocar with nine people aboard disappeared, literally, into thin air; even more remarkable, the bathers of an entire swimming pool seemingly vanished from the waters in which they swam. Then the incidents spread to livestock and other animals. Before long fantastic creatures of an ethereal nature began to appear in the skies, floating menacingly above Earth. No one knew what they were or where they came from, but one thing was clear: they had come to annihilate the life forms of not only Earth, but all the planets of the Solar System. With a grim task in front of them, the greatest brains of the civilized planets gathered in desperation. Their goal: to prevent their worlds from becoming a feeding ground for an unearthly menace from beyond the void...
Author: John W. Campbell Jr. Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1479442380 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 128
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FROZEN HELL is the original version of John W. Campbell's classic novella, Who Goes There? (filmed as The Thing). Recently discovered among Campbell's papers, this version adds another 45 pages to the story. Includes a Preface by Alec Nevala-Lee and an Introduction by Robert Silverberg.
Author: John W. Jr. Campbell Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 179
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Islands of Space" by John W. Jr. Campbell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: John Wood Campbell (Jr.) Publisher: Rocket Ride Books ISBN: 0982332203 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 166
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"Who Goes There?": The novella that formed the basis of "The Thing" is the John W. Campbell classic about an antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien. The creature revives with terrifying results, shape-shifting to assume the exact form of animal and man, alike. Paranoia ensues as a band of frightened men work to discern friend from foe, and destroy the menace before it challenges all of humanity The story, hailed as "one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written" by the SF Writers of America, is best known to fans as THE THING, as it was the basis of Howard Hawks' The Thing From Another World in 1951, and John Carpenter's The Thing in 1982. With a new Introduction by William F. Nolan, author of Logan's Run, and his never-before-published, suspenseful Screen Treatment written for Universal Studios in 1978, this is a must-have edition for scifi and horror fans
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