Islands of Space by Jr. John W. Campbell
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=ISLANDS
OF
SPACE=
"John Campbell's book was written as a sequel to _The Black StarPasses_ ... and believe me, it was a world-beater in those days.
"Arcot, Wade, Morey, and their computer, Fuller, put together a shipwhich will travel faster than light ... they give us what may have beenthe first space-warp drive. The concept was simple; to make it plausiblewasn't--unless you were John Campbell.
"With this out-of-space drive they hightail it among the stars. Theylocate the fugitive planets of the Black Star ... find a frozencemetery-world of a lost race ... then head out for another galaxy ... andwind up in a knock-down-drag-out interplanetary war in the othergalaxy."
--P. Schuyler Miller, Astounding Science Fiction
Transcriber notes:
page 006 - Corrected spelling of millenia to millenniapage 007 - Corrected intergraph to integraph to be consistent w/ other instance - 1st paragraph (Google shows intergraph to be a company and integraph to be a calculator)page 009 - Added a single ' that was dropped in the 3rd paragragh before ... brilliant mathematical assistantpage 013 - Corrected spelling of whench to whencepage 027 - Corrected spelling of withing to within, 6th paragraphpage 028 - Missing word - replaced "energy the strain" with "energy in the strain" - 6th paragraphpage 029 - Corrected spelling of Flourine to Fluorinepage 030 - Italicized "Ancient Mariner" on the first line of Ch. IV to be consistent with the dozens of other instancespage 032 - Corrected spelling of flourine to fluorine - 2nd paragraphpage 032 - Corrected spelling of flurocarbon to fluorocarbon - 2nd paragraphpage 037 - Corrected typo of 'that that' to 'than that' - 6th paragraphpage 052 - Corrected spelling of paralax to parallax - 5nd paragraphpage 059 - Corrected spelling of millenia to millennia - 3rd paragraphpage 074 - Corrected typo of 'ro' to 'to' in 1st line of 8th paragraphpage 085 - Corrected spelling of airly to airilypage 098 - Corrected typo of 'as' to 'was' - 1st line of the 7 paragraphpage 116 - Corrected typo of turned to turn - paragraph 10page 117 - Corrected typo of builder to boulder - paragraph 6page 118 - Corrected typo of seen to seem - paragraph 7page 119 - Corrected typo of 'a known' to 'an unknown' - last paragraphpage 126 - Corrected typo of Earthmen to Earthman - paragraph 3page 142 - Corrected typo of might to mighty - paragraph 7page 143 - Corrected typo of opporutnity to opportunity - paragraph 6page 145 - Corrected typo of mightest to mightiest - first paragraphpage 152 - Corrected typo of parelying to parleying - last paragraphpage 155 - Corrected typo of eloguently to eloquently - 3rd paragraphpage 161 - Corrected typo of could to would - 7th paragraphpage 164 - Corrected typo of communicaton to communication - paragraph 6page 173 - Corrected typo of Astonomer to Astronomer - paragraph 7next-to-last page - Replaced the cents character with the word 'cents' since these are the only non-ASCII characters in the text
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