{"type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL2676111A"}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "<p>Though better known as the editor for authors such as Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, <a href=\"https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-w-campbell\">John <abbr>W.</abbr> Campbell</a> also wrote science fiction under both his own and various pen names. <i>Islands of Space</i> was the second in his <a href=\"https://standardebooks.org/collections/arcot-morey-and-wade\">Arcot, Morey, and Wade</a> trilogy. Originally published in the spring 1931 edition of <i>Amazing Stories Quarterly</i>, it was later published in book form in 1957.</p>\n\t\t\t<p>After the events of <i>The Black Star Passes</i>, Arcot, Morey, Wade, and Fuller look for new challenges. Creating a spaceship that can exceed the speed of light, the four of them set out to explore other galaxies.</p>"}, "identifiers": {"standard_ebooks": ["john-w-campbell/islands-of-space"]}, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "publish_date": "2020", "publishers": ["Standard Ebooks"], "source_records": ["standard_ebooks:john-w-campbell/islands-of-space"], "subjects": ["Science fiction", "Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction"], "title": "Islands of Space", "full_title": "Islands of Space", "covers": [12621703], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL3892385W"}], "key": "/books/OL37044468M", "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-02-08T23:47:29.815342"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-17T11:22:35.704436"}}