“rather impersonal” Ibid.
the science editor for all of Street & Smith JWC to RAH, November 10, 1945.
He finally cranked out “The Chromium Helmet” Davis, “The Work of Theodore Sturgeon,” 26.
“Doña’s mood is not improved greatly” JWC to RAH, January 3, 1946.
“May we call to your attention” JWC, introduction to “Atomic Power Plant: The Making of the Bomb,” ASF, December 1945, 100.
“What do you expect to do” Doña Campbell to RAH, circa September 21, 1945.
“some of these superweapons” Alfred M. Klein, “Stranger than Fiction,” Philadelphia Record, January 20, 1946. Reprinted in de Camp, Time and Chance, 186–88.
“drunk, hostile, or very, very careless” L. Sprague de Camp to RAH, February 4, 1946, quoted in Wysocki, An Astounding War, 178.
the article caused an “explosion” RAH to L. Sprague de Camp, February 13, 1946, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 380.
Klein, the credited writer De Camp, Time and Chance, 188.
the operations rooms on warships Wysocki, An Astounding War, 138f.
“helped the Navy” JWC to Robert Swisher, September 12, 1945.
“Our present culture is finished” JWC, “Science to Come,” ASF, August 1945, 6.
“Science fiction better get stepping” JWC to LRH, November 21, 1945.
PART IV: THE DOUBLE MINDS (1945–1951)
“The art [of science fiction]” S. I. Hayakawa, “From Science-Fiction to Fiction-Science,” Etc., Summer 1951.
CHAPTER 10: BLACK MAGIC AND THE BOMB (1945–1949)
“Yes, Sarge” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 432.
“What was yours?” Ibid., 446.
“very pretty girl” Ibid., 452.
“Isaac doesn’t like the atomic bomb worth a damn” JWC to RAH, March 12, 1946.
he did his best to break the habit Asimov, Treasury of Humor, 415.
the rights to his story “Evidence” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 482.
“extraneous intrusion” Ibid., 491.
“lost in a maze of successful agencies” Asimov to Frederik Pohl, July 8, 1947.
“Go to hell!” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 508.
“Not interested in any work” Ibid., 505.
“What if it dissolved” . . . “Go try it” Ibid., 497–98.
“Hey, that was a funny satire” . . . “I forgot” Ibid., 517–18.
“What can you tell us, Mr. Asimov” . . . “Doctor Asimov” Ibid., 526.
“Certainly” Ibid., 552.
“the kind of girl” Ibid., 510.
Merril had actually grabbed at his crotch Judith Merril, signed footnote in Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 653n.
“There was a question in my mind” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 556.
leaving some furniture Patterson, Learning Curve, 357.
“He left me on a street corner” Ibid., 358.
“The men who built the atom bomb” RAH to Henry Sang, September 15, 1945, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 360.
Heinlein, Williamson, and Cartmill Patterson, Learning Curve, 374, and Pendle, Strange Angel, 171.
“a conspiracy to seize control” De Camp, “El-Ron of the City of Brass.”
the Eleanor Hotel Owen, “Ron the ‘War Hero.’ ”
impotent and depressed “The hormone further reduces my libido and I am nearly impotent.” LRH, “Affirmations.”
“He always was that way” Pendle, Strange Angel, 271.
“I . . . spent weeks in ’45” RAH to JWC, March 28, 1953.
“the man who learned better” RAH, “On the Writing of Speculative Fiction,” in Eshbach, Of Worlds Beyond, 15.
There was talk of Hubbard revising Patterson, Learning Curve, 374.
“wasted on pulp” Lurton Blassingame to LRH, November 5, 1945, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 370.
Heinlein wanted to obtain the releases RAH to JWC, February 6, 1946.
“What do you mean by saying” RAH to JWC, February 16, 1946.
Campbell handled it poorly JWC to RAH, February 4, 1946.
“a supreme scissorbill” RAH to Lloyd Biggle, Jr., September 30, 1976, quoted in Patterson, The Man Who Learned Better, 518n.
“I hardly expect to sell to him again” RAH to L. Sprague de Camp, February 13, 1946, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 380.
“Never write down to them” RAH Accession Notes for Rocket Ship Galileo, April 2, 1967, RAH Archives, UC Santa Cruz.
Will Jenkins had told him Ashley, The Time Machines, 195.
“speculative fiction” RAH, “On the Writing of Speculative Fiction,” in Eshbach, Of Worlds Beyond.
“The market is there” RAH to John Arwine, May 10, 1946, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 389–90.
“swan song” Patterson, Learning Curve, 402.
had even mentioned it in the magazine “Heinlein wants to tell the story of the Blind Singer of the Spaceways; you may remember mention of some of his poems in Heinlein stories.” JWC, In Times to Come, ASF, April 1943, 65.
“miserable envy” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 489.
“I deeply regret” RAH to Henry and Catherine Kuttner, October 26, 1946, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 404.
“I think about you all the time” RAH and Leslyn Heinlein to Virginia Gerstenfeld, March 9, 1947, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 411.
Leslyn couldn’t drive Virginia Heinlein to William H. Patterson, Jr., January 8, 2000.
“Leslyn slept in the studio” Grace Dugan Sang, quoted in Patterson, The Man Who Learned Better, 484.
“Oh, my darling” Virginia Gerstenfeld to RAH, circa April 1947.
“During the past eighteen months” RAH to John Arwine, March 15, 1947, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 415.
“I was simply a man” RAH to Anthony Boucher, March 27, 1957.
“Bob feels that I am entirely to blame” Leslyn Heinlein to Jack Williamson, August 18, 1947, quoted in James, “Regarding Leslyn,” 27.
“I took it to mean that his marital problems” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 499.
Space Cadet The novel would lend its title, though little else, to the television show Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Patterson, The Man Who Learned Better, 55.
The rights dispute with Astounding JWC to RAH, August 10, 1948.
articles on the subject for hobbyist journals JWC wrote pieces for the June and July 1955 issues of The Radio Amateurs’ Journal, as well as the article “How to Be an Amateur” in Amateur Radio 73, October 1960, 34–37. His call sign was W2ZGU.
they used it to discuss a new idea RAH to JWC, December 3, 1948.
a letter from a fan Richard A. Hoen, letter to ASF, November 1948, 111–12.
“Another solution is for him to become a messiah” RAH to JWC, January 27, 1949.
“What makes a superman?” Virginia Heinlein, note in RAH, Grumbles from the Grave, 52.
a publisher wanted to put out the Future History Erle Korshak of Shasta Press published landmark editions of JWC’s Who Goes There? and Cloak of Aesir, LRH’s Slaves of Sleep, and RAH’s The Man Who Sold the Moon, The Green Hills of Earth, and Revolt in 2100, although all three men—as well as Asimov—expressed occasional irritation with his business practices. LRH to RAH, March 8 and March 31, 1949; RAH to JWC, April 11, 1949; Asimov to Pohl, October 18, 1949; JWC to Allen S. Porter, May 19, 1954; and JWC to Raymond F. Jones, October 28, 1954.
“If you don’t say yes” LRH to RAH, February 17, 1949.
“She won’t turn down a shipmate” RAH to LRH, February 19, 1949.
“No son of a bitch” RAH to LRH, March 4, 1949.
“If it drives you nuts” LRH to RAH, March 8, 1949.
Lou Goldstone Pendle, Strange Angel, 252.
“Must not believe in God” Wright, Going Clear, 51.
the best way to make money Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 119.
Heinlein bet him that he couldn’t Patterson, Learning Curve, 563n.
Sara Northrup S
ara, whose middle name was Elizabeth, was known as “Betty” while living with Parsons. Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 117.
he awoke after a drunken party Ibid., 172.
“Although he has no formal training in Magick” Ibid., 120.
“like a starfish on a clam” Pendle, Strange Angel, 255–56.
Hubbard and Parsons were fencing Ibid., 256.
“my very good friend” LRH, Philadelphia Doctorate Lectures, December 5, 1952.
“the perfect pioneer” Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, dedication.
“He called” Parsons, The Book of Babalon, http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib49.htm (accessed December 2017).
“It is done” Pendle, Strange Angel, 263.
Marjorie Cameron Cameron later married Parsons and became a prominent figure in occult circles, working with such artists as the director Kenneth Anger. Pendle, Strange Angel, 263, 303.
“varied and elastic nature” Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 122.
“The lust” Parsons, The Book of Babalon, http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib49.htm (accessed December 2017).
“I thought I had a most morbid imagination” Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 126.
“Apparently Parsons or Hubbard” Ibid.
“Any distaste I may have” LRH, “Affirmations.”
“China, knives, guns” Patterson, Learning Curve, 409.
“I don’t understand Ron’s current activities” RAH to John Arwine, May 10, 1946, quoted in Patterson, Learning Curve, 387.
“Suspect Ron playing confidence trick” Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 128.
“[breaking] up black magic in America” Ibid., 114. The Church of Scientology has asserted that RAH asked LRH to investigate Parsons on behalf of naval intelligence, but no evidence has emerged to support this claim. Wright, Going Clear, 431.
he began beating her in Miami Wright, Going Clear, 60.
stayed overnight in New Jersey LRH, in a letter dated November 26, 1946, reprinted in LRH, Dianetics: Letters & Journals, 8.
“He was a quivering psychoneurotic wreck” JWC to RAH, March 24, 1953.
“reeked of tension” JWC to Art Coulter, August 28, 1953.
“heartily and affectionately . . . the Heinlein doghouse” LRH to RAH, December 4, 1946.
“I no longer trust you” Patterson, Learning Curve, 409. A few months later, RAH told JWC that LRH had accused him of plagiarizing “The Green Hills of Earth.” After warning him to watch out for libelous material in anything that LRH submitted, he concluded: “I have been at a loss to understand much of Ron’s behavior for the past year. I just check it off to the actions of a battle-fatigued wounded veteran and skip it.” RAH to JWC, February 14, 1947.
“Here and there throughout the world” LRH, as “Capt. B.A. Northrop,” “Fortress in the Sky,” Air Trails and Science Frontiers, May 1947, 70.
the “gravity gauge” “The first [strategic advantage] might be termed the ‘gravity gauge’ comparable to the weather gauge so desirable in the days of sailing ships of the line. . . . The gravity gauge is important in the ratio of six to one, in that a missile would have to travel with an initial velocity of six miles per second to leave Earth, but would only have to travel with a velocity of one mile per second to leave the moon.” LRH, as “Capt. B.A. Northrop,” “Fortress in the Sky,” Air Trails and Science Frontiers, May 1947, 25. RAH briefly mentioned the gravity gauge in Space Cadet, and he would draw on the concept at length in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
“I bought it quite largely because” JWC to RAH, March 24, 1953.
“I broke it out” LRH to Russell Hays, July 15, 1948, reprinted in LRH, Dianetics: Letters & Journals, 17.
“long periods of moroseness” Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 138.
many of the plots proposed by Sara Corydon, Messiah or Madman?, 310.
“strolling in astral form” Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 142.
“I went right down in the middle of Hollywood” Wright, Going Clear, 68.
he had his subjects “writhing” Ibid.
eight out of ten patients LRH to Russell Hays, July 15, 1948, reprinted in LRH, Dianetics: Letters & Journals, 17.
meetings of the Queens Science Fiction League LRH to RAH, September 25, 1948.
“I no longer start for the bridge” Ibid.
“a book risen from the ashes” LRH to RAH, November 24, 1948.
Thanksgiving with the Campbells Ibid.
a pulpwood plant LRH to RAH and Virginia Heinlein, March 3, 1949.
“rape women without their knowing it” LRH to Forrest J Ackerman, January 13, 1949.
Sara went to see her mother LRH to RAH, March 31, 1949.
the American Psychiatric Association Wright, Going Clear, 84. LRH mentioned speaking to a man named Davies at the A.P.A. in the cover letter to his unpublished manuscript “A Criticism of Dianetics,” which is preserved in the microfilm reels of JWC, The Complete Collection of the JWC Letters. In the same letter, he also claimed to have spoken to an individual who can be identified as James B. Craig, a neurologist “largely responsible for the establishment of the psychiatric ward at St. Joseph’s Hospital” in Savannah. Southern Cross (Savannah, Georgia), April 26, 1952.
the Gerontological Society in Baltimore LRH to the Gerontological Society, April 13, 1949, reprinted in LRH, Dianetics: Letters & Journals, 19–21.
“the local psychiatrists” LRH to RAH, April 21, 1949.
he was moving to Washington, D.C. LRH to RAH, April 30, 1949.
a woman named Ann Jensen Wright, Going Clear, 72.
“awful pretty” LRH to RAH, March 31, 1949.
he sent a letter to Parsons Pendle, Strange Angel, 287.
inviting him and Sara to New Jersey Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 148.
CHAPTER 11: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH (1945–1950)
“Cybernetics is the big new idea” Yvette Gittleson, “Sacred Cows in Collision,” American Scientist, October 1950, 603–9.
the Marshall Islands JWC later wrote that he had received an offer to observe the tests in person, but had declined. JWC to William R. Burkett, Jr., September 14, 1965.
“The big cities” JWC, “Bikini Balance Sheet,” Air Trails Pictorial, December 1946, 35.
“If you want to know what a hell of a fix” Dickson Hartwell, “Mister Atomic,” Pic, February 1946, 20.
“At thirty-five” Ibid., 21.
“Despite [his] varied activities” JWC, “Meet the Authors,” Air Trails Pictorial, December 1946, 106–7.
“Questions about his personal life” Dickson Hartwell, “Mister Atomic,” Pic, February 1946, 21.
“Mrs. Campbell has long since” JWC, “Meet the Authors,” Air Trails Pictorial, December 1946, 107.
“I learned more” Doña Campbell to RAH, circa September 21, 1945.
“I should work fifteen years” JWC to RAH, January 3, 1946.
the physicist Hans Bethe JWC to Joseph P. Martino, September 22, 1965.
“The uranium reaction” JWC, “—But Are We?,” ASF, January 1946, 6.
“Psychology must advance” JWC, “Progress To Be Made,” ASF, April 1946, 6.
“I hate to see a man” RAH to JWC, November 5, 1946.
“Java, Australia” JWC, In Times to Come, ASF, February 1946, 116.
“Against the Fall of Night” Clarke, Astounding Days, 109.
issues with foreign rights Arthur C. Clarke to JWC, January 1, 1952.
an idea from Campbell Harrison and Aldiss, The Astounding-Analog Reader, x.
at the urging of a fan Resnick, Always a Fan, 132. “When I saw Campbell at NyCon III, the 1967 Worldcon, I asked him about it—in a very general way, so as not to insult him. He muttered that maybe [the fan Ed Wood] had a little something to do with it, and then wandered off.” Mike Resnick, e-mail to author, August 18, 2017.
“John, I wrote a story” Knight, The Futurians, 185.
trying to pull back from atomic doom JWC, Brass Tacks, ASF, September 1948, 155.
; other ways of approaching the same material Some of the best stories on atomic themes were written by women, including “In Hiding” by Wilmar R. Shiras, about a mutant child prodigy reminiscent of the young JWC—he reads his textbooks from cover to cover and sells fiction to the pulps.
a teenage Neil Armstrong Wagener, One Giant Leap, 35.
John Michel Knight, The Futurians, 156.
“It is up to each of us” JWC, “Air Trails and New Frontiers,” Air Trails Pictorial, September 1946, 22.
“We can already control atomic weapons” JWC, “The Greatest Power,” Air Trails Pictorial, December 1946, 26.
L. Jerome Stanton Smith, Worlds of George O., 67–68. Stanton first appears on the Air Trails masthead in the February 1947 issue.
“the original ball-bearing mousetrap” Ibid., 137–38. The story was “Rat Race,” ASF, August 1947.
“Between you and me” LRH to RAH, September 25, 1948.
tens of thousands more copies JWC, In Times to Come, ASF, December 1947, 82.
advertising to be sold specifically JWC, ASF, April 1948, 35, and In Times to Come, ASF, May 1948, 148.
Henry Holt had “rooked” him JWC to Robert Swisher, October 1, 1947.
“These two incomplete sciences” JWC, The Atomic Story, 280, 292.
“a total reorganization” Ibid., 296.
“We must learn more about atomic forces” Ibid., 297.
When Asimov was told the news Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 556.
most had college degrees JWC, The Analytical Laboratory, ASF, July 1949, 161.
“George, build me a good, stiff drink!” Smith, Worlds of George O., 213.
obsessed with Hubbard’s new mental therapy Smith—who said that he and Doña played bridge with the Hubbards—also claimed that LRH had spoken to him about dianetics before discussing it with JWC, saying that he didn’t “want John to dive into this as his next hobby” until he was prepared to leak it. The timing of LRH’s move to New Jersey and JWC’s first known mention of his work makes this claim highly unlikely. Smith, Worlds of George O., 138.
“She took a dim view . . . John was satisfied” Ibid., 213.
“having no interest in the future” JWC to RAH, July 27, 1950.
“underwife” JWC to Eric Frank Russell, April 6, 1958.
“only the last straw” Doña Campbell to RAH and Virginia Heinlein, May 8, 1950.
the magazine’s offices had relocated JWC to LRH, April 21, 1948.
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