FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Black Star Passes, by John W Campbell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Black Star Passes Author: John W Campbell Illustrator: Jerome Podwil Release Date: February 27, 2007 [EBook #20707] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BLACK STAR PASSES *** Produced by V. L. Simpson, Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THREE AGAINST THE STARS A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention.... First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets.... The arrival of an unseen dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end of civilization in this Solar System.... These were the three challenges that tested the skill and minds of the brilliant team of scientist-astronauts Arcot, Wade, and Morey. Their initial adventures are a classic of science-fiction which first brought the name of their author, John W. Campbell, into prominence as a master of the inventive imagination. JOHN W. CAMPBELL first started writing in 1930 when his first short story, _When the Atoms Failed_, was accepted by a science-fiction magazine. At that time he was twenty years old and still a student at college. As the title of the story indicates, he was even at that time occupied with the significance of atomic energy and nuclear physics. For the next seven years, Campbell, bolstered by a scientific background that ran from childhood experiments, to study at Duke University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote and sold science-fiction, achieving for himself an enviable reputation in the field. In 1937 he became the editor of _Astounding Stories_ magazine and applied himself at once to the task of bettering the magazine and the field of s-f writing in general. His influence on science-fiction since then cannot be underestimated. Today he still remains as the editor of that magazine's evolved and redesigned successor, _Analog_.
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

fiction

 

science

 

magazine

 

Campbell

 

editor

 

writing

 

Passes

 

Gutenberg

 
Project
 
accepted

twenty

 
student
 

college

 

Failed

 

classic

 
brought
 

adventures

 
initial
 

author

 

CAMPBELL


started

 
imagination
 

inventive

 
prominence
 

master

 

bettering

 
general
 

applied

 

Astounding

 

Stories


influence
 

evolved

 
remains
 

redesigned

 

successor

 

Analog

 

underestimated

 

reputation

 

enviable

 

bolstered


scientific

 

background

 
physics
 
significance
 

occupied

 

atomic

 

energy

 

nuclear

 

Technology

 

Institute