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  • (Review) Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 24 09:06:24 2025
    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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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Thu Jul 24 11:51:10 2025
    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

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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.co on Thu Jul 24 19:49:42 2025
    In article <105tvau$1h16c$2@dont-email.me>,
    Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> 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

    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.

    A: Lots of skiffy folk loved diaretics, including JWC. It definitely
    left a mark.

    B: Via the Writers of the Future project, Hubbard (or his successors)
    still influence SF.
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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.co on Thu Jul 24 16:04:57 2025
    In article <105tvau$1h16c$2@dont-email.me>,
    Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> 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

    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.

    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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