Sujet : Re: (Review) Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee
De : bliss-sf4ever (at) *nospam* dslextreme.com (Bobbie Sellers)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 24. Jul 2025, 19:51:10
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On 7/24/25 06:06, James Nicoll wrote:
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein,
L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec
Nevala-Lee
A look at four men (and the women in their lives) who shaped American SF.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/fab-four
Hubbard should be excluded as he is/was a fantasist who got gullible people to
take him seriously. I read his first article on Dianetics in Astounding and noticed that
it sounded like a scam and when he turned it into Scientology I was confirmed.
He just wanted to avoid taxes so he could get rich.
bliss - wonders who has read "Gladiator" the Philip Wylie book