Islands of Space

The novel that gave science fiction its warp drive. John W. Campbell's 1957 space adventure introduced the concept of hyperspace travel decades before Star Trek made it mainstream. When scientists Richard Arcot, Robert Morey, and their colleagues board the faster-than-light ship Ancient Mariner, they're not just exploring our galaxy. They're heading into the unknown. Their journey takes them to the fugitive planets of the Black Star, a frozen cemetery-world of an extinct civilization, and ultimately to another galaxy entirely, where they find themselves caught in an interplanetary war. With their revolutionary ship and an intelligent computer named Fuller at their side, the crew must use every ounce of scientific ingenuity to survive encounters that push the boundaries of human knowledge. It's a ripping good adventure that helped invent the vocabulary of interstellar travel.