Islands of Space
mar 2013 · Distribuido por Simon and Schuster
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"The most powerful force in science fiction ever." - Isaac Asimov, on John W. Campbell
Before interstellar adventure became a familiar science-fiction mode, Campbell was already writing at galactic scale. In Islands of Space, a team of scientist-inventors unlocks a radical new principle of travel and pushes beyond the Milky Way into a universe of alien civilizations, immense technologies, and conflict on a cosmic stage.
This is concept-driven space adventure in the purest Golden-Age tradition: experimental ships, faster-than-light movement, strange worlds, first contact, and the exhilaration of a cosmos far larger than humanity imagined. Campbell delivers what made early science fiction powerful in the first place: bold ideas, engineering-driven wonder, and sustained narrative momentum across a full-length interstellar voyage.
A foundational work of interstellar SF, and one of the books that gave the genre some of its most enduring ideas. For readers drawn to retro-futurist imagination, the origins of major genre tropes, and the expansive wonder of Golden-Age space opera.
Before interstellar adventure became a familiar science-fiction mode, Campbell was already writing at galactic scale. In Islands of Space, a team of scientist-inventors unlocks a radical new principle of travel and pushes beyond the Milky Way into a universe of alien civilizations, immense technologies, and conflict on a cosmic stage.
This is concept-driven space adventure in the purest Golden-Age tradition: experimental ships, faster-than-light movement, strange worlds, first contact, and the exhilaration of a cosmos far larger than humanity imagined. Campbell delivers what made early science fiction powerful in the first place: bold ideas, engineering-driven wonder, and sustained narrative momentum across a full-length interstellar voyage.
A foundational work of interstellar SF, and one of the books that gave the genre some of its most enduring ideas. For readers drawn to retro-futurist imagination, the origins of major genre tropes, and the expansive wonder of Golden-Age space opera.
"The most powerful force in science fiction ever." - Isaac Asimov, on John W. Campbell
Before interstellar adventure became a familiar science-fiction mode, Campbell was already writing at galactic scale. In Islands of Space, a team of scientist-inventors unlocks a radical new principle of trave...
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