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Islands of Space

Islands of Space

Novel by John W. CampbellWikipedia

Search complete. 2 mentions across 1 episode found for "Islands of Space".

Oct 9, 2026

speaker_0HOST
16:02
We want to construct the technology that would be included in these emitters and this type of technology.
speaker_0HOST
16:10
The general concept of warp drive was introduced by John W. Campbell in his nineteen fifty-seven novel, Islands of Space, and was popularized by the Star Trek series.
speaker_0HOST
16:23
Its closest real-life equivalent is the Alcubierre drive.
speaker_0HOST
16:27
We went over the Alcubierre-Froning drive in the first half.
speaker_0HOST
18:09
That is an interesting question.
speaker_0HOST
18:11
The general concept of warp drive was introduced by John W. Campbell in 1957.
speaker_0HOST
18:17
It was in his novel Islands of Space.
speaker_0HOST
18:20
Brave New Words gave the earliest example of the term space warp drive as Fredric Brown's Gateway to Darkness, 1949, and also cited an unnamed story from Cosmic Stories, May 1941, as using the word warp in the context of space travel.

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