| 词条 | The Mightiest Machine |
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| name = The Mightiest Machine | title_orig = | translator = | image = Mightiest machine.jpg | caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition | author = John W. Campbell, Jr. | illustrator = R. Pailthorpe | cover_artist = Betty Wells Halladay | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Science fiction | publisher = The Hadley Publishing Co. | release_date = 1947 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback) | pages = 228 | isbn = | oclc = 2737057 | preceded_by = | followed_by = The Incredible Planet }} The Mightiest Machine is a science fiction novel by American writer John W. Campbell, Jr. The novel was originally serialized in 5 parts in Astounding Stories magazine from December 1934 to April 1935, and was published in book form in 1947 by The Hadley Publishing Co. in an edition of 1,200 copies. Campbell was a leading figure in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Plot introductionThe story is the first to feature Campbell's hero Aarn Munro.This space opera novel concerns the harnessing of energy from the sun and encounters with aliens who turn out not to be truly alien at all. It also touches on the legends of ancient civilizations on earth, Mu in this case, and what may have happened to them. ReceptionAstounding reviewer P. Schuyler Miller described the 1947 edition as "perhaps the climax of the super-physics school of science fiction which 'Skylark' Smith had started."[1] Everett F. Bleiler identified the novel as the paradigm of "the Campbell hard space opera," noting its "great quantity of fanciful and ingenious scientific extrapolations, fictional weaknesses, and polarized social simplistics that regard genocide with equanimity."[2]References1. ^"Book Reviews", Astounding, November 1950, p.94 2. ^Everett F. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, Kent State University Press, 1998, p.59 TechnologyThe novel is ground breaking in its inclusion of a wide range of advanced technology including space travel concepts such as Artificial gravity, Faster-than-light travel with Warp drive, and an early version of travel through Wormholes as important facets of the story. The protagonist also invents and employs devices such as Infrared vision googles and miniature remotely piloted surveillance drones. TriviaThe novel contains the first known use of the phrase, "...to infinity and beyond...," although it is unlikely the reference was picked up from by authors of Toy Story for use by Buzz Lightyear. Chapter V: "Her crew on that trip that was to lead them to infinity and beyond consisted of Aarn Munro,..." Sources
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