Invaders from the Infinite (Audible Audio Edition) John Wood Campbell Jr Arthur Vincet Audioliterature Books
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"Invaders from the Infinite" is a science-fiction novel by author John W. Campbell, Jr. E. F. Bleiler, noted editor of science-fiction literature, described the novel as "the early John W. Campbell story par excellence weak novelistic skills combined with very strong speculative, imaginative theoretical physics. While one may be bored with the interminable lectures and rendered drowsy by the repeated space battles, but one must also admire Campbell's ingenuity in creating novel artifacts". The novel concerns a trio of heroes, Arcot, Morey and Wade, and their attempts to help a race of superdogs.
Invaders from the Infinite (Audible Audio Edition) John Wood Campbell Jr Arthur Vincet Audioliterature Books
Hard to describe this story in any detail, lots of action, lots of "science", and lots of interstellar, and even intergalactic, travel. The story starts fast and screams along. A modern writer might take 500 pages to tell this tale. Written in 1961, using the sparser prose of sci-fi's golden years, it's a fairly short novel, Kindle lists it at 169 pages, a not uncommon length for science fiction novels in that time. Then there is the science, couldn't really be science fiction without science in it. This story has interstellar flight, intergalactic flight, incredible technologies, and a rather strange fascination with tubes. The digital age hadn't dawned when this story was written, so, digital computers, calculating massive quantities of data are replaced with machines controlled by thought, as opposed to machines designed and driven or controlled by computers. Then there is that fascination with tubes, not necessarily vacuum tubes, like the kind you find in pre-transistor TVs and radios, but, I suspect from the manner in which the author describes them, pretty much the same sort of thing. And rays, this story has rays going off everywhere, molecular rays, gamma rays, x-rays, and even cosmic rays. All of them controlled in some fashion by tubes. The author spends a considerable amount of time writing about tubes. The aliens? There are several, good ones, and bad ones, and the bad ones are particularly evil.For a fairly short novel the author crams a great quantity of alien culture, alien worlds, and interstellar travel into this tale. If you like big, bold, unvarnished interstellar adventure, then this story is for you. Nothing of sentiment or romance, just flat out adventure across the cosmos.
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Invaders from the Infinite (Audible Audio Edition) John Wood Campbell Jr Arthur Vincet Audioliterature Books Reviews
Great!!!
I read this book a long time ago and forgot how advanced some of the concepts were, for a bok written such a long time ago. I always enjoy reading John W Campbell.
Very fast paced glimpse of the author's ideas of technology not yet invented. Good thing it is a book, so the confusing parts can be studied.
I enjoyed it
Easy to read and simply fun. Campbell not only was a great editor, but as this yarn proves can write a good story. You will find better technically written stories, but this is a must read of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
I did not like it. It did not hold my interest. I only read about 25% of book and then quit. Kept talking about motor drives and rays. Just not for me.
Having originally read this book in 1969/1970, and knowing how long ago it was written, I cannot give it the 5 stars I would have 50 years ago. Invaders is still a great, if dated, read and I recommend it to anyone interested in reading a work from the early years of SF.
Campbell is the father of American SF. Descriptions are beautiful; ideas are challenging; technology is imaginative. The aliens are well thought out. However...the core flaw is that characterization is weak. Arcott, Morey and Wade are interchangeable. There are other 50s flaws...characters smoking in space ...no female characters...world changing inventions happening at breakneck pace. But, if you read this you see the literary DNA that leads to Star Trek, Star Wars, and Independence Day.
Hard to describe this story in any detail, lots of action, lots of "science", and lots of interstellar, and even intergalactic, travel. The story starts fast and screams along. A modern writer might take 500 pages to tell this tale. Written in 1961, using the sparser prose of sci-fi's golden years, it's a fairly short novel, lists it at 169 pages, a not uncommon length for science fiction novels in that time. Then there is the science, couldn't really be science fiction without science in it. This story has interstellar flight, intergalactic flight, incredible technologies, and a rather strange fascination with tubes. The digital age hadn't dawned when this story was written, so, digital computers, calculating massive quantities of data are replaced with machines controlled by thought, as opposed to machines designed and driven or controlled by computers. Then there is that fascination with tubes, not necessarily vacuum tubes, like the kind you find in pre-transistor TVs and radios, but, I suspect from the manner in which the author describes them, pretty much the same sort of thing. And rays, this story has rays going off everywhere, molecular rays, gamma rays, x-rays, and even cosmic rays. All of them controlled in some fashion by tubes. The author spends a considerable amount of time writing about tubes. The aliens? There are several, good ones, and bad ones, and the bad ones are particularly evil.
For a fairly short novel the author crams a great quantity of alien culture, alien worlds, and interstellar travel into this tale. If you like big, bold, unvarnished interstellar adventure, then this story is for you. Nothing of sentiment or romance, just flat out adventure across the cosmos.
For free on . This is one for the real sci-fi enthusiast.
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