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Genre. Science fiction. Signature. John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact) from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
John W. Campbell (born June 8, 1910, Newark, N.J., U.S.—died July 11, 1971, Mountainside, N.J.) was an American science-fiction writer, considered the father of modern science fiction. Campbell, who spent his childhood reading widely and experimenting with science, began writing science fiction while in college.
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Nov 15, 2018 · John W. Campbell, a chief architect of science fiction’s Golden Age, was as brilliant as he was problematic. By Scott Bradfield. Nov. 15, 2018 2 PM PT. Back in the so-called Golden Age of...
- Scott Bradfield
Nov 7, 2018 · John W. Campbell never became as famous as many of the writers he published, but he influenced the dreamlife of millions. For more than three decades, an unparalleled series of visions of the future passed through his tiny office in New York, where he inaugurated the main sequence of science fiction that runs through works from 2001 to Westworld.
- Alec Nevala-Lee
John W. Campbell was born on June 8 in 1910 - fifteen years after H.G. Wells published The Time Machine, 16 years before Hugo Gernsback began using the term "Scientifiction" for the genre with the April 1926 issue of Amazing Stories, 19 years before the new Science Wonder Stories introduced the modern term "science fiction," and 28 years before ...
Oct 23, 2018 · From the Back Cover. Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers—John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard—who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world.
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Oct 10, 2018 · Alec Nevala-Lee’s Astounding is a fascinating collective portrait of four men who, together and apart, helped to shape modern science fiction. They were the legendary, irascible John W....
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