Invaders from the Infinite - Couverture souple

Campbell Jr, John W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1612039189 ISBN 13 : 9781612039183

Editeur : Spastic Cat Press, 2011

Synopsis

Invaders from the Infinite is the 1961 sci fi novel by John W. Campbell, Jr. and is an expansion of stories that originally appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories Quarterly. Invaders from the Infinite is the third volume of John Campbell's Arcot-Morey-Wade science fiction series, following The Black Star Passes and Islands of Space chronicling the adventures of the three young scientist-inventors as they almost single-handedly save the Earth, Venus, people of another galaxy and most of the known Universe. Whatever comes along, Arcot, Morey, and Wade take the lead in producing new inventions to handle it. Invaders from the Infinite concerns the trios attempts to help a race of superdogs. John Wood Campbell, Jr. as an influential figure in American science fiction, editor of Astounding Science Fiction and generally credited with shaping Golden Age of Science Fiction. Isaac Asimov called Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever, and for the first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely."

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The alien spaceship was unthinkably huge, enormously powerful, apparently irresistible. It came from the void and settled on Earth, striking awe into the hearts of all who saw it. Its burden, however, was not conquest -- but a call for help! First contact was a job for the brilliant team of scientists, Arcot, Wade, and Morey,explorers of the Islands of Space. And what they learned was an offer of an alliance against an invading foe so powerful that no known force could turn them back!John Wood Campbell, Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an important science fiction editor and writer. As a writer he was first influential under his own name as a writer of super-science space opera and then under the name Don A. Stuart, a pseudonym he used for moodier, less pulpish stories. However, Campbell's primary influence on the genre was as the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, a post that he held from late 1937 until his death. In that role he is generally credited with helping to create the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction, which is often held to have started with the July 1939 issue of Astounding. Isaac Asimov called Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever, and for the first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely." At the time of his sudden and unexpected death after 34 years at the helm of Astounding, however, his quirky personality and occasionally eccentric editorial demands had alienated a number of his most illustrious writers such as Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein to the point that they no longer submitted works to him.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes, blasted off on an intergalactic search for defenses against the invaders of Earth and all her allies. World after world was visited, secret after secret unleashed, and turned to mighty weapons of intense force—and still the Thessian enemy seemed to grow in power and ferocity. Mighty battles between huge space armadas were but skirmishes in the galactic war, as the invincible aliens savagely advanced and the Earth team hurled bolt after bolt of pure ravening energy—until it appeared that the universe itself might end in one final flare of furious torrential power....

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spastic Cat Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1612039189
• ISBN 13: 9781612039183
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 166
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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