Re: (Review) Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee

In article <105tvau$1h16c$2@dont-email.me>,
Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

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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

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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.

This would seem to be a reason to include him even more strongly.  He not
only shaped American SF, but he managed to create a fraudulent religion
from it!
--scott

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