John W Campbell

A landmark of early space opera, The Planeteers collects five linked novelets chronicling the scientific odyssey of Blake and Penton as they explore the Solar System. Originally published between 1936 and 1938-with one final installment first appearing in 1966-this saga begins with their flight from Earth's anti-research laws and follows their encounters with shape-shifting Martian lifeforms, dual-brained overlords on Ganymede, and genetically engineered civilizations on distant moons.These hard science fiction tales blend exploration, alien shape-shifting paranoia, and biological speculation in a brisk and inventive chronicle of survival beyond the stars.

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell is a gripping science fiction novella set in the icy isolation of Antarctica. A group of scientists discovers a mysterious alien creature buried in the ice, only to find that it can imitate any living being perfectly. Paranoia and fear grip the team as they realize the alien could be any one of them. With trust crumbling and the stakes rising, the survivors must find a way to stop the shape-shifting entity before it escapes and threatens humanity itself. This classic tale of suspense and psychological horror inspired the famous film The Thing and remains a cornerstone of the sci-fi horror genre.

As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast shining horizon, the mass of stars that formed their own island universe. Morey worked a moment with his slide rule, then said, "We made good time Twenty-nine light years in ten seconds Yet you had it at only half power...."Arcot pushed the control lever all the way to full power. The ship filled with the strain of flowing energy, and sparks snapped in the air of the control room as they raced at an inconceivable speed through the darkness of intergalactic space.But suddenly, far off to their left and far to their right, they saw two shining ships paralleling their course They held grimly to the course of the Earth ship, bracketing it like an official guard.The Earth scientists stared at them in wonder. "Lord," muttered Morey, "where can they have come from?"

In the much-awaited follow-up to Cross-Examined: Putting Christianity on Trial, trial lawyer John W. Campbell demonstrates why Christians are fundamentally wrong about Jesus, the leader of the movement that developed into modern Christianity. Using the most up to date research and findings, Campbell shows, among other things, why Jesus was not the Jewish Messiah, why the true Jesus was replaced by Paul's Christ of faith, and why Jesus was not resurrected from the dead. Campbell reveals how Jesus came to be severely misunderstood, unwittingly giving birth to a religion he would not have recognized and surely would have opposed. Campbell explains who Jesus really was, what he believed, and why he would be so disappointed with modern Christianity.

Christianity is more than just a religion. It is a social organism that affects the lives of every person on earth in significant ways, even if they are not Christians themselves. In the United States its influence is pervasive with often profound influence on public policies, but it is largely unchallenged as a belief system, relegated to that quarantined area outside the zone of polite conversation. Despite much academic ink being allotted to the weaknesses of Christianity as a valid belief system, the general public remains unaware of these flaws. In Cross Examined, John Campbell applies his almost thirty years of experience as a trial lawyer to dissecting Christianity and the case of apologists for the Christian God. He addresses the best arguments for Christianity, those against it, and the reasons people should care about these questions. His purpose is to fill a void in books on atheism and Christianity by systematically taking Christian claims to task and making a full-throated argument for atheism from the perspective of a trial lawyer making a case.