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Islands of Space by John W. Campbell Jr.

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2.0

It's rather fitting that this book, written by the man whose work as an editor would go on to codify western science fiction (for better and worse), is an amusingly juvenile mishmash of concepts and ideas that reads like a boys' club book with too much technobabble. Even Campbell's peers recognized its awkwardness, and its only lasting impact is that it gave us the word "hyperspace."
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