Astounding

by Alec Nevala-Lee

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  Notes

  For many events and details of the lives of Heinlein, Hubbard, and Asimov, I am particularly indebted to the books Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century by William H. Patterson, Jr.; Bare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller; and In Memory Yet Green, In Joy Still Felt, and I. Asimov by Isaac Asimov. To keep the notes to a manageable length, I have cited these indispensible works primarily in cases of direct quotation or when the original source might be unclear.

  My primary sources of correspondence were The Complete Collection of the John W. Campbell Letters on microfilm, the originals of which are held at San Diego State University, and the Heinlein Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In quoting letters, I have generally corrected and standardized the spelling and punctuation. For quotations from novels and short stories, because of the large number of variant editions, I have refrained from citing specific page numbers except when the works in question are obscure, out of print, or otherwise unavailable.

  A few short passages relating to Hubbard’s writing career have been adapted from my earlier essay “Xenu’s Paradox: The Fiction of L. Ron Hubbard and the Making of Scientology.”

  PROLOGUE: ASIMOV’S SWORD

  “My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned” Asimov’s essay, which was privately written and circulated in 1959 for a group funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency, was first published in MIT Technology Review, January/February 2015, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531911/isaac-asimov-asks-how-do-people-get-new-ideas (accessed December 2017).

  Conference on Education for Creativity in the Sciences “Creative Chat,” The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, June 15, 1963, 24–25.

  “That world will be more complex than it is today” Jerome B. Wiesner, “Education for Creativity in the Sciences,” Daedalus, Summer 1965, 537.

  One of the attendees was Isaac Asimov Asimov, In Joy Still Felt, 313–14.

  “I just dropped it somewhere” Ibid., 313.

  “there is no possibility of pretending to youth at forty” Ibid., 185.

  “Wars are different these days” Asimov, “The Sword of Achilles,” 17.