John W. Campbell Bibliography - Novels and Fixups

Novels and Fixups

• The Mightiest Machine. Providence, Rhode Island: Hadley Publishing Company, 1947; hardcover. Originally serialized over five issues in Astounding, starting in December 1934.
• The Incredible Planet. Reading: Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1949; hardcover. Three linked novellas: "The Incredible Planet", "The Interstellar Search", and "The Infinite Atom", originally written as sequels to The Mightiest Machine but rejected by Tremaine for publication in Astounding. This is their first publication, so the book is not a fixup in the usual sense, although the stories were not originally intended for publication as a novel.
• The Moon is Hell. London: New English Library, 1975; paperback. See the entry in the short story collection section below.
• The Black Star Passes. Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1953; hardcover. Fixup of three stories in Campbell's "Arcot, Morey and Wade" series, all from 1930: "Piracy Preferred", "Solarite", and "The Black Star Passes".
• Islands of Space. Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1956; hardcover. Originally published in Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring 1931.
• Invaders from the Infinite. Hicksville, New York: Gnome Press, 1961; hardcover simultaneous with: Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1961; hardcover. Originally published in Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring/Summer 1932. Note that the Gnome Press and Fantasy Press editions were very limited in release. The Reginald Index lists the Fantasy Press as the first edition but this is apparently incorrect. Both the Tuck Encyclopedia and the Chalker-Owings History list the editions as simultaneous. It was to have been a Fantasy Press project, but was handed off to Gnome when the Fantasy Press folded. Lloyd Eshbach of Fantasy Press printed the copies for both editions, including 100 that he did for longtime customers.
• The Ultimate Weapon. New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1966; paperback. Bound dos-a-dos with Campbell's The Planeteers, as Ace Double G-585; see below. Originally serialized in the October and November 1936 Astoundings as Uncertainty.

The Nicholls Encyclopedia mentions a 1952 chapbook, published in Australia, as the first edition of Who Goes There? as a standalone novel, but provides no bibliographic details. The story itself first saw book form in the 1948 Shasta collection; see below.