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Islands of Space

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Islands of Space
Dust-jacket from the first edition
AuthorJohn W. Campbell Jr.
Cover artistRic Binkley
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesArcot, Morey and Wade
GenreScience fiction
PublisherFantasy Press
Publication date
1957
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages224
OCLC3613703
Preceded byThe Black Star Passes 
Followed byInvaders from the Infinite 

Islands of Space is a science fiction novel by American writer John W. Campbell It was first published in book form in 1957 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 1,417 copies. The novel originally appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories Quarterly; the text was "extensively edited" for book publication, with Campbell's approval, by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach.[1] A paperback edition was published by Ace Books in 1966. In 1973, Islands was included in a Doubleday omnibus of all three "Arcot, Wade, and Morey" novels. A German translation appeared in 1967 as Kosmische Kreuzfahrt, and an Italian translation was published in 1976 as Isole nello spazio.[2]

Islands of Space is generally credited with introducing the concepts of hyperspace and the warp drive to science fiction.[3][4]

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Plot introduction

Islands of Space is a sequel to The Black Star Passes. It concerns the adventures of four heroes: Arcot, Morey, Wade, and Fuller. It is followed by Invaders from the Infinite.

Reception

Theodore Sturgeon, reviewing the Fantasy Press edition, wrote "This is a real lousy book", faulting its lack of characterization, suspense, and plot, and a writing style "such as would dry up the purple blood of the sleaziest fan magazine". "BUT --", he continued, "Islands is a voyage far afield and a catalogue of the marvels of other-where, ... a cornucopia of technological and mechanistic matter, both real and extrapolated, poured out prodigiously and with abandon, [and] a narrative which could not occur without its science -- the purest, and almost the rarest form of science fiction." Sturgeon concluded, "It is high time and past time for [science fiction] to infuse itself with the rich hot blood of the old space-opera".[5]

P. Schuyler Miller wrote that the book version "has been carefully modernized, [but] it's old-fashioned now. It is also very characteristic of the best "hard" science fiction of its day."[6] This is the first published use of the term hard science fiction.[7]

E. F. Bleiler described the original text as "Greatly overloaded with unnecessary (although at times ingenious) exposition, hence almost unreadable; weak novelistically; and clichéd in its action plot."[1]

Islands of Space was originally published in the Spring 1931 Amazing Stories Quarterly

References

  1. ^ a b Everett F. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, Kent State University Press, 1998, p.52-54
  2. ^ ISFDB publishing history
  3. ^ J. Gardiner, "Warp Drive - From Imagination to Reality", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, vol. 61, p. 353-357 (2008)
  4. ^ Brian Stableford, Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature, Scarecrow Press, 2004, p.168
  5. ^ "On Hand: A Book", Venture Science Fiction, November 1957, p.82
  6. ^ "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, November 1957, p.143
  7. ^ Westfahl, Gary (1996-02-28). "Introduction". Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy). Greenwood Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-313-29727-4. Retrieved 2007-10-07. hard science fiction ... the term was first used by P. Schuyler Miller in 1957

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