John W. Campbell

Broschiertes Buch

Islands of Space

Beschreibung

As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies Arcot Wade Morey and Fuller could see below them like a vast shining horizon the mass of stars that formed their own island universe. Morey worked a moment with his slide rule then said "We made good time! Twenty-nine light years in ten seconds! Yet you had it on at only half power...." Arcot pushed the control lever all the way to full power. The ship filled with the strain of flowing energy and sparks snapped in the air of the control room as they raced at an inconceivable speed through the darkness of intergalactic space. But suddenly far off to their left and far to their right they saw two shining ships paralleling their course! They held grimly to the course of the Earth ship bracketing it like an official guard. The Earth scientists stared at them in wonder. "Lord " muttered Morey "where can they have come from?"

Autor

John Campbell was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1910. His father, John Wood Campbell Sr., was an electrical engineer. His mother, Dorothy (née Strahern) had an identical twin who visited them often and who disliked John. John was unable to tell them apart and says he was frequently rebuffed by the person he took to be his mother. Campbell attended the Blair Academy, a boarding school in rural Warren County, New Jersey, but did not graduate because of lack of credits for French and trigonometry. He also attended, without graduating, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was befriended by the mathematician Norbert Wiener (who coined the term cybernetics) - but he failed German, and MIT dismissed him in his junior year in 1931. After two years at Duke University, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1934.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Start Classics
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9798880906284
• Artikelnr.: 74444172