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awakened one night by screaming Corydon, Messiah or Madman?, 291, and Wright, Going Clear, 84.
“five abortions” LRH, “Affirmations.”
“a deckhand” LRH, Master Mariner, 27.
“I anchored and lashed up” Ibid., 48.
a swimming brown bear LRH, “It Bears Telling,” reprinted in LRH, Adventurer/Explorer, 105–9.
“a slight case of shipwreck” JWC, Of Things Beyond, Unknown, December 1940, 5.
“Ron, I think, is in for some kidding” JWC to Robert Swisher, January 7, 1941.
“Cap’n, do you like to wrassle with bears?” LRH, “It Bears Telling,” reprinted in LRH, Adventurer/Explorer, 105.
a satirical song in his honor JWC to RAH, February 19, 1941.
a flamboyant character Pohl, The Way the Future Was, 119.
“I waited on the stairway with a gun” Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 173.
“This will introduce” Ibid., 97.
“In personal relationships” Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky, 72.
“He was very beautiful” Doña Campbell to RAH, November 9, 1941.
“There are about five consistent” JWC to RAH, February 13, 1941.
“Asimov is one of those authors” JWC, Brass Tacks, ASF, November 1940, 115.
“work their way up” JWC, “Invitation,” ASF, February 1941, 6.
his mother grew fond of Pohl “Her affection for you has lately passed all bounds (and it was big enough as it was).” Asimov to Frederik Pohl, November 29, 1939.
“You don’t look at all like your stories” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 262.
“I can detect that fiendish look” Asimov, letter to ASF, April 1940, 159.
“Do you think, Asimov” Asimov, Asimov on Science Fiction, 196.
Campbell had inserted a new speech Patrouch, The Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov, 16.
“Robert Heinlein . . . presents a civilization” JWC, “It Isn’t a Science—Yet!”, ASF, February 1940, 164.
recurrent panic attacks “I understand psychologists and psychiatrists are supposed to report any consultations if the patient shows up at the Army and Navy lists. Mine probably wouldn’t, but if he did, I’d be out rather quickly probably. I suspect the Navy Medical doesn’t like ‘Fear Syndrome’ on the records.” JWC to RAH, July 21, 1942.
“The Astounding Science Fiction of the past year” Lynn Bridges, letter to ASF, November 1940, 115–16.
“Psychology could improve a lot” JWC, Brass Tacks, ASF, November 1940, 115.
“Remember, I want to see that story” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 281.
“Asimov, when you have trouble” Ibid.
Campbell had ruthlessly cut John W. Campbell compositions, Houghton Library, Harvard University, folders “Dark,” “Dead Language,” and “Pandora.”
inspired by Campbell’s Penton and Blake Asimov, Before the Golden Age, 795.
“Look, Asimov, in working this out” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 286.
“No, Asimov, I picked them out of your stories” Ibid., 286–87.
“the basic desires of a small child” JWC to Isa D. Reed, July 2, 1951.
“a good many of the world’s ethical systems” Asimov, “Evidence,” ASF, September 1946, 121–40.
fewer Hitlers and more Einsteins Asimov, letter to ASF, January 1941, 158–59.
“Psychology isn’t an exact science” JWC, Brass Tacks, ASF, January 1941, 158.
“What do you think would happen” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 295.
who never read the essay himself Asimov, The Early Asimov, 337.
“I never had anything write itself so easily” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 297.
“a lean and hungry” JWC to Jay Kay Klein, May 6, 1971.
“From what you told me” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 297n.
the greatest science fiction story It was ranked first by the Science Fiction Writers of America in Silverberg, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929–1964. In a poll by Locus in 2012, it fell to second, behind Daniel Keyes’s “Flowers for Algernon.” http://www.locusmag.com/2012/AllCenturyPollsResults.html (accessed December 2017).
the comic opera Iolanthe Asimov’s description matches an illustration—by W. S. Gilbert himself—on page 272 of Plays and Poems of W. S. Gilbert (New York: Random House, 1934), which may have been the book that he was carrying that day.
“He felt in our discussion” Freedman, Conversations with Isaac Asimov, 40.
theories of history L. Sprague de Camp, “The Science of Whithering,” ASF, July and August 1940.
“I’m interested in theories” Jack Williamson to JWC, April 16, 1941. Jack Williamson papers, Eastern New Mexico University.
“a scientific Shangri-La” Jack Williamson, “Backlash,” ASF, August 1941, 150.
“politicotechnic theories” Jack Williamson, “Breakdown,” ASF, January 1942, 21.
“That’s too large a theme” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 311.
“You may need the second one later on” Panshin, The World Beyond the Hill, 535.
“I want that Foundation story” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 318.
“Why? Do you think you would be any safer” Ibid., 300.
“But Professor Urey” Ibid., 300–301.
Campbell argued about it Lester del Rey, in Locus, July 12, 1971, 3.
Hitler’s defeat was inevitable Freedman, Conversations With Isaac Asimov, 46.
“Because I’m a Jew” L. Sprague de Camp, “Isaac and I,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, November 1992, 5.
“It might be of very real interest” JWC, “History to Come,” ASF, May 1941, 6.
“Van Vogt probably could do a better job” RAH to JWC, September 27, 1940.
a new, superior species JWC to RAH, “Monday,” circa December 15, 1940.
“Too reminiscent of Slan” RAH to JWC, December 17, 1940.
“The story is weak” JWC to RAH, December 27, 1940.
“Can any solution” JWC, note on “Solution Unsatisfactory,” ASF, May 1941, 86.
Heinlein sent in the first section for notes RAH to JWC, March 5, 1941.
“cotton candy” RAH to JWC, October 4, 1941.
“If you someday find it necessary” RAH to JWC, November 2, 1940.
“To be classed” RAH to JWC, February 19, 1941.
“Mrs. Heinlein and I” James, “Regarding Leslyn,” 22.
“The basic trouble” JWC to RAH, August 21, 1941.
“unofficial scout” RAH to JWC, August 27, 1941.
“We were delighted to see Asimov” RAH to JWC, August 27, 1941.
“Asimov is one of my personal finds” JWC to RAH, September 3, 1941.
“You are apparently under the impression” RAH to JWC, September 6, 1941.
“pressure and uncertainty” JWC to RAH, September 13, 1941.
“If you retire abruptly” JWC to RAH, September 17, 1941.
“What you contributed to science fiction” JWC to RAH, October 27, 1941.
stories that felt like they could appear Pohl, The Way the Future Was, 87–88.
Campbell proposed that he come out Patterson, Learning Curve, 292.
“If the Japanese start a war” RAH to T. B. Buell, October 4, 1973, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 292.
“I would like to have been a synthesist” RAH to JWC and Doña Campbell, December 21, 1941.
as if they had written it together “As you may recall from Beyond the Horizon [sic], we don’t share your own gloomy view.” Leslyn Heinlein to Forrest J Ackerman, 1944, quoted in James, “Regarding Leslyn,” 25.
“tall stories . . . Like that yarn about the grandfather clock” JWC, In Times to Come, ASF, March 1942, 76.
he asked Heinlein to spread the word JWC to RAH, November 24, 1941.
PART III: THE INVADERS (1941–1945)
“In a short war” JWC, “Invention,” ASF, January 1941, 6.
CHAPTER 7: A COLD FURY (1941–1944)
“You’ve told me that I was yo
ur best writer” RAH to JWC, January 4, 1942.
When the telephone rang JWC to RAH and Leslyn Heinlein, December 8, 1941.
“I’m not kidding” Ibid.
“gloomy as hell” Ibid.
“But do, both of you” Doña Campbell to RAH and Leslyn Heinlein, December 7, 1941.
“Pearl Harbor isn’t a point on a floor game” RAH to JWC, January 4, 1942.
“a cold fury” RAH to JWC, December 9, 1941.
“somewhere in the Pacific” JWC, In Times to Come, ASF, March 1942, 76.
Ray Bradbury joked Virginia Heinlein to William H. Patterson, Jr., August 15, 1999. A rather different account appears in Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles, 114–15.
a “bum” at a cigar store LRH, “Miracles in Dianetics,” delivered on December 12, 1951.
the commander of the USS Astoria JWC to Robert Swisher, November 1939, and Doña Campbell to RAH, December 13, 1941.
“He’ll probably turn up in Greenland” Doña Campbell to RAH, December 13, 1941.
“none too enthusiastically” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 323.
he was so furious with the Japanese JWC to RAH, December 17, 1941.
Campbell prepared a bomb shelter Ibid.
outside plant engineer JWC to Robert Swisher, December 12, 1941. John W. Campbell, Sr., and Linus E. Kittredge authored the article “War Emergency Stocks in the Bell System,” Bell Telephone Magazine, September 1943, 178–87.
His sister Laura JWC to Robert Swisher, December 12, 1941.
a Red Cross class for women Doña Campbell to RAH, January 8, 1942.
“My own status is somewhat confusing” JWC to RAH, December 17, 1941.
“cannon fodder . . . I suppose it has already occurred” RAH to JWC, December 21, 1941.
“Of course, it would be kinda rough” Ibid.
“I doubt [Doña would] get the job” JWC to RAH, December 24, 1941.
“Ha! Such is the power of love” Doña Campbell, marginal note on letter from JWC to RAH, December 24, 1941.
the resident expert at the office JWC to RAH, January 8, 1942.
“the British once shot an admiral” JWC to RAH, December 17, 1941.
“perilously close to giving aid” RAH to JWC, December 21, 1941.
The editor missed the hint JWC to RAH, December 24, 1941.
“to stir you up off your fat fanny” RAH to JWC, January 4, 1942.
“Don’t you realize” Leslyn Heinlein to JWC, January 4, 1942.
“a clumsy oaf” JWC to RAH, January 8, 1942.
the emotional catharsis RAH to JWC, January 17, 1942.
“Incidentally, how would you like” Buddy Scoles to RAH, January 14, 1942, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 299.
“You are likely to have quite a lot” RAH to JWC, January 17, 1942.
“most ardently . . . The greatest disturbance” JWC to RAH, January 22, 1942.
“My concern lay solely” Doña Campbell to RAH, January 23, 1942.
the National Defense Research Committee JWC to RAH, May 13, 1942.
Heinlein was in town Ibid.
“Very far” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 337.
“Why didn’t you call?” Ibid., 338.
“It’s a Coke” Ibid., 338.
“one ounce of blended rye” Catherine de Camp, “An Unwritten Letter to Our Dear Friend Isaac Asimov,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, November 1992, 8.
“No wonder Isaac doesn’t drink” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 338.
some nude photos Asimov later came to believe that these images were of L. Sprague de Camp’s wife, Catherine. In Memory Yet Green, 503. However, de Camp stated elsewhere that she only met the Heinleins after their move to Philadelphia. Catherine de Camp, foreword to Gifford, Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader’s Companion, vi.
“[Philinda] started making eyes at Bob” JWC to Robert Swisher, April 14, 1942.
“They took us to shows” JWC to Robert Swisher, May 8, 1942.
“L. Ron Hubbard’s in town” JWC to RAH, May 13, 1942.
“He collected a piece of Jap bomb” Ibid.
the Don Isidro A detailed account of this incident appears in the revised edition of Chris Owen’s Ron the War Hero, which the author has reviewed in manuscript.
“By assuming unauthorized authority” Memorandum from US Naval Attaché to Australia to Commandant, Twelfth Naval District, February 14, 1942.
“Frankly, I’m scared stiff” Asimov to Frederik Pohl, May 13, 1942.
“My job is really a reasonable facsimile” Asimov to Frederik Pohl, May 29, 1942.
“Let’s get together” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 329.
“Naturally with the dance” Asimov to Frederik Pohl, July 24, 1941.
“a Russian chemist with a mustache” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 330.
“I don’t want to spoil things” Ibid., 331.
“Oh my, you are smart” Ibid., 336.
he accidentally forced an evacuation Wysocki, An Astounding War, 175.
“Remember, Gittel” Asimov, I. Asimov, 111.
“I am greatly relieved” Asimov, Yours, Isaac Asimov, 204.
“What’s this I hear about” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 372.
“It was no great hardship” Ibid., 372.
“I don’t think they hit it off” Ibid., 375.
He liked to snap their bras Ibid., 430.
“attractive and pleasingly quiet” Frederik Pohl to Asimov, July 13, 1942.
“For Christ’s sake, Isaac” Frederik Pohl to Asimov, January 2, 1942.
“I don’t know with what authority” Asimov to Frederik Pohl, January 5, 1942.
“Try as I may” Gertrude Asimov to Frederik Pohl, circa January 1942.
“You’re lucky they weren’t real” Joel Charles to RAH, April 5, 1988, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 306.
“I hate my job” RAH to JWC, July 18, 1942.
“the perfect private secretary” Ibid.
“clip those beetling brows” Patterson, Learning Curve, 312.
“It must have irked Heinlein” De Camp, Time and Chance, 189.
“A war requires subordination” RAH to JWC, July 18, 1942.
“as the type of men wanted for real research” JWC to Robert Swisher, March 30, 1942.
He even reached out to del Rey Del Rey, Early Del Rey, 340.
“fear syndrome” JWC to RAH, July 21, 1942.
“Truthfully, we aren’t shorthanded” RAH to JWC, July 18, 1942.
“working my heart out” RAH to G. Harry Stine, July 27, 1954. Virginia Heinlein later wrote in the essay “Science Fiction and John W. Campbell, Jr.”: “It is my private opinion that John’s lack of wartime service to his country did as much to destroy the friendship as anything which happened between the two men.” RAH Archives, UC Santa Cruz.
“with poor grace” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 392.
“Don’t do that” Ibid., 393.
“Well, then, suppose I figure out” Ibid.
“Just doing everything she could” Forrest J Ackerman, interview with Robert James, June 9, 2000, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 313.
the same uniforms as the female workers Leslyn Heinlein, “Each Employee His Own Personnel Manager,” reprinted in James, “Regarding Leslyn,” 32.
“shapfu” JWC to RAH, January 1, 1943.
“in a location where I could not see” RAH to E. J. “Ted” Carnell, December 31, 1943, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 319.
“having your asshole cut out” RAH to John Arwine, January 8, 1944, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 319.
“no rectum to speak of” RAH to Horace Gold, October 27, 1952, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 321.
to live with the Campbells RAH to JWC, October 23, 1944.
“I’m simply going to be bored” RAH to John Arwine, January 8, 1944, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 324.
“Hubbard has been an adventurer” JWC, In Times to Come, ASF, November 1942, 42.
“I imagine that the thi
ng” JWC to RAH, August 11, 1942.
CHAPTER 8: THE WAR OF INVENTION (1942–1944)
“The position of America” JWC, In Times to Come, ASF, February 1942, 35.
“Since reporting to this activity” Quoted in Owen, “Ron the ‘War Hero.’ ”
“[Hubbard’s] own feeling” JWC to RAH, May 19, 1942.
“They’ve kidnapped him into a desk job” JWC to Robert Swisher, “Friday,” circa 1942.
“the peoples, language, and customs” Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 101.
trips to Los Angeles C. L. Moore to RAH, July 2, 1942, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 308.
“He’s back on sea duty” JWC to RAH, June 25, 1942.
“Hubbard has gone to collect” Doña Campbell to RAH, July 2, 1942.
“their braid dirty” Wright, Going Clear, 43.
a science fiction club in Cambridge Warner, All Our Yesterdays, 213. In a letter about this visit, JWC offered a rare contemporary description of Polly, whom he and Doña met for the first time in Boston: “She is fully as powerful and arresting a major personality as Ron himself. . . . She can talk as steadily and as fascinatingly, as intelligently as Ron. . . . She’s the only caliber of person that could offer Ron companionship, but she’s also so powerful a personality that the pair couldn’t stay close to each other for long stretches.” JWC to Anthony Boucher, October 14, 1942. William Anthony Parker White papers, Indiana University Bloomington.
“not temperamentally suited” Quoted in Owen, “Ron the ‘War Hero.’ ”
“I have a feeling” JWC to Robert Swisher, October 21, 1942.
urinating blood Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky, 80.
“While training in Miami” LRH, “Affirmations.”
“Boy was I able to catch up” Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky, 79.
he had graduated at the top of his class JWC to RAH, January 6, 1943.
“I took to dosing myself” LRH, “Affirmations.”
“The ship, sleepy and skeptical” LRH, “An Account of the Action Off Cape Lookout,” https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/battle.htm (accessed December 2017).
“every man on the bridge” Ibid.
“two Jap subs without credit” LRH, “Affirmations.”
“a very arduous day” Quoted in Owen, “Ron the ‘War Hero.’ ”
“At no time was I aware” Ibid.
His men lied to protect him “My crew lied for me at the Court of Inquiry.” LRH, “Affirmations.”