Re: (Review) Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee

Bobbie Sellers wrote:

  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
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A look at four men (and the women in their lives) who shaped American SF.
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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 would include A.E. Van Vogt who was very prolific in those years, and whose writings were influential even decades later.
Hubbard was for a while also frequently published in Astounding, but I feel that his later notoriety was what got him entry to this book.
But anybody who takes Patterson seriously is not themselves worth taking seriously.
William Hyde