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A review by leventmolla
Invaders from the Infinite by John W. Campbell Jr.
2.0
John W. Campbell is a pioneer editor for Science Fiction magazines of the Golden Age. He put a lot of effort to compile "hard-science" stories and had a taste for stories which employed plausible scientific theories and devices.
Invaders form the Infinite is one of the series of books he wrote, employing the same principle he used to select stories for his magazines. Today the so-called "science" in his books are really archaic and you can se that the writing is really low-quality and these books are space operas of the worst kind. I think this kind of writing was triggered by all the changes that were happening in the science of his day, since you see traces of scientific "facts" that were clearly influenced by Einstein's work on Relativity and the science that followed from it.
This does not reduce Campbell's importance as a pioneer of Science Fiction, but this fact does not make his books more readable.
Invaders form the Infinite is one of the series of books he wrote, employing the same principle he used to select stories for his magazines. Today the so-called "science" in his books are really archaic and you can se that the writing is really low-quality and these books are space operas of the worst kind. I think this kind of writing was triggered by all the changes that were happening in the science of his day, since you see traces of scientific "facts" that were clearly influenced by Einstein's work on Relativity and the science that followed from it.
This does not reduce Campbell's importance as a pioneer of Science Fiction, but this fact does not make his books more readable.