Alec Nevala-Lee
Teoksen Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction tekijä
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Alec Nevala-Lee graduate from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in classics. He is the author of three novels including The Icon Thief, and his stories have been published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Light-speed, and The Year's Best Science Fiction. His nonfiction has appeared in näytä lisää the New York times, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Beast, Salon, Longreads, the Rumpus, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He lives with his wife and daughter in Oak Park, Illinois. näytä vähemmän
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Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (2018) — Tekijä — 318 kappaletta
The Boneless One [novelette] 5 kappaletta
Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, January-February 2023 | The Elephant Maker (2023) 4 kappaletta
Ernesto 2 kappaletta
Inversus 1 kappale
The Last Resort 1 kappale
Kawataro 1 kappale
The Voices 1 kappale
The Proving Ground {short story} 1 kappale
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The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2020 (2020) — Avustaja — 86 kappaletta
Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXXXVIII, Nos. 3 & 4 (March/April 2018) (2018) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
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Early in his career, Campbell offered a clear, if limited, definition of science fiction and the sorts of heroes it should produce. The ideal science fiction protagonist, he said, should be a “competent man”: “a hero with the sensibilities of an engineer confronting challenges that only science could solve.” It was the sort of fiction epitomized by Heinlein and written today by such writers as Andy Weir. The lack of such an engineering focus was one factor that kept a younger writer like Ray Bradbury from ever appearing in the magazine.
For a man who prided himself on his rationality, Campbell proved himself to be a sucker for every crank idea that came along, most notably the Dianetics of L. Ron Hubbard that laid the groundwork for the cult of Scientology. He encouraged Asimov to burden his stories with characters with psionic abilities—qualities even his robots eventually acquired. Before he realized his long-held ambition to get rich by founding a religion, L. Ron Hubbard was the best-selling writer in Campbell’s stable. Campbell created a fantasy magazine as a more appropriate venue for him than Astounding. As he aged, Campbell became less and less tolerant of challenges to his beliefs, an intransigence that was a factor in the breakup of his first marriage.
None of these Golden-Agers had especially enlightened views on the status of women. Kay Tarrant spent her whole career unacknowledged at Campbell’s side doing all the practical, unglamorous work of magazine publishing. None of the writers had first marriages that went the distance, and Asimov was known by women in publishing as “the man with a thousand hands.”
To give Campbell his due, he had an eye for talent and an early vision of what science fiction could be. He had a major influence on Asimov’s Foundation series and helped him formulate his three laws of robotics. He provided a venue for Hubbard’s best work and encouraged Heinlein to stay in the game when he had doubts about writing as a career. And, best of all, his magazine helped shape the genre as it emerged from the pulp tradition.… (lisätietoja)