Invaders from the Infinite - John W. Campbell
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- Опубликовано: 14 апр 2013
- Invaders from the Infinite by John W. Campbell
The alien spaceship was unthinkably huge, enormously powerful, apparently irresistable. It came from the void and settled on Earth, striking awe into the hearts of those 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 W. Campbell's Invaders from the Infinite is a veritable odyssey of the Universe spanning across 3 novellas. It continues to stand as a defining Science Fiction epic in which new worlds are explored, new beings discovered, and Cosmic secrets revealed.
Published in Spring-Summer 1932 ~ Amazing Stories Quarterly 
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FYI this is the third book in a series following "black star passes" and "islands of space" also available on this and other channels. ...in case you prefer to read them in order...😇
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Damn you... I absolutely just can not read a series of book out of order and I waited till 2 hours in to this to look at the comments only to see this soul crushing one by you! For real though, thanks for mentioning this. I likely never would have known of the first two books.
Links, for everyone's convenience: book 1 "The Black Star Passes" = ruclips.net/video/UjQeBiJeJOw/видео.html and book 2 "Islands of Space" = ruclips.net/video/DeUiCj3jPug/видео.html
Yeah i was 90min into the book before i read the comments and saw MY OWN COMMENT from 2 years ago and realized this is book 3. Thanks, me!
Yes I love to be in bed hot drink an lisen to a good old book I don't use my telly now.. And it's free. Happy new year to you all.
Living in a covid19 UK my current circumstances mirror your early in the new year!!! Tis a funny old world eh!!
Meeeee Tooooooo
Turning off your tv is the first step in waking up .
They dont call it programing for nothing .
This story took me several days to listen to it completely. I rank it right up there with E.E. Doc Smith's "Lensman" series is scope and grandeur...wow! With few tweaks this book could be made into a multi-movie SciFi epic...if only!
I love those old writers
Aghhhhhhhhhhhhh! He's new to me. 😯😞
Almost done with this trilogy. Finding it enjoyable on a number of levels. Btw wasn't too keen on the way those meanies and fibbers at Wikipedia trashed and impugned Campbell's name. Okay, so Campbell no doubt had quirks. He liked to use cigarette holders. And, yes, he harbored some cringe-worthy though by no means unusual 20th century beliefs. But he was just an artist, for crying out loud. On many levels he was no doubt utterly malfunctional. On a social level he appears to have been capable of being exceptionally annoying. Yet his writing is pleasantly idiosyncratic, if a bit overly earnest at first glance. I for one am enjoying Campbell's ability to simplify the language in a way that would allow escapism-jazzed youths to breeze through every story. Plus he can't be faulted for thinking small. The idea of zipping among a multitude of galaxies (aka "universes"?) is engaging. The admirably elaborate techno-babble at first repulsed me, but then I got hooked on the techno-babble's straight forward yet intricate and satisfyingly cummulative effect. And one has to admit that Campbell has a forte for having his characters blunder into other people's business only to immediately "help out" by solving every disagreement with quite a colorful variety of weapons of mass-destruction that have a nasty tendency to brutally kill large numbers of beings. And then what do they do? They insistantly assist strange new cultures about which they really know nothing whatsoever to build and apply those absurdly dangerous weapons of mass-destruction themselves. Well that's mighty neighborly. Female characters? Yes, some female characters might have made the stories more sunny. And apparently he was also a wiz at editing, which is an art in itself. Take it from an exceptionally bored violinist, enjoying stories by John W. Campbell is a perfectly cromulent thing to do.
You would be an exceptionally good writer. I appreciate your vocabulary and sentence structure.
Then you are not going to like my assessment above! LOL!
@@genefriedman2649 HAHAHAHA LOL!!!!!!
Campbell's similar to the original Star Trek TV series. Lacking the strong background in science such as authors like Azimov, Clark and Heinlein Campbell was unable to create stories with a basis in true science that made those other writers so famous. Instead he relied on his skill as a story teller to get around the fact that he lacked any scientific ability which actually was not such a bad thing! In time he began to concentrate on his editorial skills and almost more importantly his ability to hunt out those new authors with the best chance to produce the high quality output that was needed to keep the field growing and expanding! Of secondary importance to all this was his infamy shall we say at getting himself caught up in the darker side of issues such as civil rights and historical things such as slavery. Whether there was any merit to some of his views many of them verged on the darker side of those sociable issues. So much of the good will he accrued from his writing and editing began to be lost trying to defend himself in what seemed to be a losing cause. Still no matter what his fiction and the magazines he edited would serve to maintain his legacy for many years to come.
@@r.g.o3879he attended MIT but graduated with a Batchelor of science from Duke. Campbell as editor published the other's work eg. Heinlein, Asimov during the golden age.
Excellent sci- fi top drawer! Gets the mind working overtime and exercises the thought process as pure unaffected sc-fi can, im tired of daft "issues" bogging everything down turning a great story into a audio soap opera or a Jeremy Kyle show..., i learned all the lessons thank you, and its a rare treat to hear some GREAT sci fi. Arthur C Clarke does it brilliantly, that is, until he teamed up with Gentry Lee for example and the purity began to be a soap opera, with life lessons in being a drone by Gentry Lee infecting the essence and mystery of Clarke.
Here we are without such drivel and it maintains to be a little gem...
Thankyou! MORE!!.please.
I agree about the Gentry Lee bit. the "Rendezvous with Rama" series was far too soap-opera/morality play-ish for me.
Excellent!
Phew! I've now listened to all 3 within a few days. Undoubtedly Campbell was a better editor than author. He's obsessed with big numbers, weird units, and rays. Apparently he was a rather nasty person as well.
Published at the very birth of the atomic age. A reactor already had been built
Book 1 "The Black Star Passes" = ruclips.net/video/UjQeBiJeJOw/видео.html and book 2 "Islands of Space" = ruclips.net/video/DeUiCj3jPug/видео.html
feeling scared
It's fun to say a billion billion. This might be the same universe that spawns the improbability drive. or the galaxy revealed to be, in fact, a cluster of atoms at the tip of a four dimensional mouse's whisker.
And the S.E.P. cloaking device. (Someone else's problem). Thanks for all the fish.
I agree. But... this tripe is not in the same genre as THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. It lacks any intentional humor, and seems to be the kind of material that Douglas Adams chose to mock and of which to make parody.
@@genefriedman2649 i totally agree. IIm sure itd make him smile though.
Is the matter manipulation device inspiration for the green lantern?
I think it is.
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Chapter 6
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> “ B’s “ in check ?...
To slow for me
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1hr 23min
Far too many adjectives and not nearly enough verbs!
That far into the "future " and still rockin the Scottish accent? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤮🤮🤮🍩
It would have been a better storie if, the author hadn't gone on and on repeating items. Must have explained the scientific theories four or five times. I get it "matter is energy" blah blah blah
ken travirca - John W. Campbell was The Compulsive Nerd From The Infinite.
@@mostlynew that's an understatement.
Ken travirca - it was written in 1932.
Uber nerd shite gets tiresome I agree.
Ken, I agree. Was there a story? I got soooo numb from the endless repetition of stupid, implausible and 'astonishing' causes of this or that effect, I can't recall a plot. I dd not care for (or for that matter like) any of these characters. That is the author's fault. Someone apologized for the book by saying it was written in 1932... I have to respond... As if H.G. Wells, Hugo Gernsback and Jules Verne never existed?? Grrrrr.
Did not like this book at all.
Everything described is exaggerated, immense, extraordinary, inconceivable. No explanation is given for pseudo scientific statements... I feel like I am reading a book by The Queen of Heart who "believes six impossible things before breakfast". Three paragraphs will hold a half dozen unnecessary, exaggerated details that are test, and fail, before the reader's credulity. Its like in the film THE CORE, where a character says 'We could save the world, if we only had such-and-such a device... but such a thing doesn't exist', and then another character replies... 'Oh... But what if it does!?' Except here, the author NEVER considers that he is throwing so many impossible or incredible things at the reader that he has lost all credibility. All of this concessive exageration is thrown at the reader at the expense of character development, humor or plot convolutions that the reader cares about.
TERRIBLE.
Stick with John Wyndham or Andre Norton if you want a convincing piece of Science Fiction..