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Originally Posted by barryem
I suggest "The Beast" and "The Voyage of the Space Ship Beagle". The thing about his books is they're all so very different. There are a few that fall into a group but the majority are all as different from each other as they are from everyone else's books. He was a pretty good writer but he certainly had one of the wildest imaginations I've ever encountered.
By the way, there's one other author who might be worth discussing in this thread and that's Robert L Forward and his book "Dragon's Egg". This is absolutely hard science fiction, as much as any book could ever be, and yet it takes place in a setting that seems impossible to have anything happen, on the surface of a neutron star with gravity 67 billion times as great as on Earth. Stuff happens though. Stuff really happens. 
He wrote shortly after the golden age of sf and I really don't know much about him other than that one book. It's a book that's hard to forget.
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He also wrote a sequel to "Dragon's Egg" titled "Star Quake" which chronicles the future history of the beings on the neutron star after the humans leave.
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John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor. As editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact) from late 1937 until his death, he is generally credited with shaping the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
Isaac Asimov called Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever, and for the first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely.
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John W. Campbell