Hubbard, Mary Sue Whipp, 328, 330, 332, 392–95, 402
Hubbard, Quentin, 392–93
Hubbard, Sara Northrup, 249, 259, 262, 393
affair with and marriage to LRH, 231–39, 243, 253, 270, 288, 289–90
children and family life, 253, 257, 292–93, 295, 391
dianetics and, 285–93
divorce from LRH, 292–93, 295
Hubbard Association of Scientologists, 330
Hubbard College, 329
Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, 270, 275, 293–94
Hugo Awards, 337, 339, 340, 349, 358–59
Hunter, Max, 389
Hurricane Hazel, 309
Huxley, Aldous, 287
Hydra Club, 223
hydrogen bomb, 244
hypnosis, 18–19, 39, 261, 304, 315–16
I, Robot (Asimov), 2, 283, 372
“Idealists, The” (Campbell), 320
“If This Goes On—” (Heinlein), 113–14, 133, 135
Iliad (Homer), 14
“Imitation” (Campbell), 67
“Immortality Seekers, The” (Campbell), 67, 372
Indigestible Triton, The (Hubbard), 129
information theory, 262, 315
“In Hiding” (Shiras), 458n
Institute of Humanics, 335
integraph, 31–32
International Astronomical Union, 401
International Harvester, 36
International Motors, 65–66
Interplanetary Exploration Society, 324–25
Interstellar (movie), 5
“Invaders, The” (Campbell), 64
“Invaders from the Infinite” (Campbell), 30–31, 56
Iolanthe (opera), 139
“Irrelevant, The” (Campbell), 62–63
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, 398
“Islands of Space” (Campbell), 32–33
I Will Fear No Evil (Heinlein), 383–84, 398
Janifer, Laurence, 379
Java, 160, 176, 177
Jenkins, Will (Murray Leinster), 187, 194, 201, 226, 245, 279, 315, 387
Jensen, Ann, 239
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 224, 385
Job: A Comedy of Justice (Heinlein), 433n
John Birch Society, 341
Johnson, D. L., 195
Jones, Raymond F., 280, 473n
Journal of the American Medical Association, 256
Julius Caesar (play), 121–22
Jungle, The (Sinclair), 109–10
kamikaze attacks, 65, 201
Kansas City Star, 36
Katz, Arnie, 376
Kearney, Everett, 274
Kearney, Jane, 274, 301–2, 313, 321, 321–24, 376, 401
Kearney, Joe, 274, 301–2, 308, 311, 311–16
Kearney, Margaret. See Campbell, Margaret Kearney “Peg”
Kemp, Earl, 347
Kennedy, John F., 1, 332–33, 484n
Kennedy Space Center, 376
Kent State shootings, 368
Kerr, Joseph, 20
Killough, R. S., 195
Kipling, Rudyard, 5, 25, 37
Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 403
Kittatinny Campground, 26–27
Klass, Philip, 366–67, 378
Klein, Alfred M., 212–13
Klowden, Barbara, 287, 288, 289
Knight, Damon, 99, 186, 484n
Koenig, H. C., 105–6
Kornbluth, Cyril, 102, 103, 109, 181
Korshak, Erle, 455n
Korzybski, Alfred, 110–11, 244, 251, 259–60, 280, 307
Krebiozen, 368
Krieg, Laura Campbell, 22, 23, 125, 153–54, 209–10, 249, 309–10
Krieg, Laurence, 310
Krieg, William, 209
Krugman, Paul, 12, 415n
Kubilis, Walter, 103
Kubrick, Stanley, 348
Kuslan, Louis, 106–7
Kuttner, Henry, 182, 203, 205
Kyle, David, 107
Lafferty, John, 415n
Lang, Fritz, 229
Langmuir, Irving, 116–17
Laning, Cal, 39, 40–41
Lansdale, John, 195–96
Lapham, Bob, 387
“Last Evolution, The” (Campbell), 57
“Last Question, The” (Asimov), 344
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 359–60
Lederer, Charles, 299–300
“Legion of Time, The” (Williamson), 82, 87
Le Guin, Ursula K., 356
Lehrer, Tom, 336–37
Leinster, Murray. See Jenkins, Will
Lensman series (Smith), 77–78, 143, 245, 313
Lest Darkness Fall (de Camp), 121–22
“Let There Be Light” (Heinlein), 114
Levantman, Herbert, 103
Lewis, C. S., 310
Lewis, Sinclair, 113
Lexington, USS, 40
Ley, Willy, 121–22, 134, 159, 187, 279, 350
“Liar!” (Asimov), 137
Liber O (Crowley), 217
“Life-Line” (Heinlein), 111–12, 114
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The (Lewis), 310
“Little Lost Robot” (Asimov), 220
Living Brain, The (Walter), 308–9
Lo! (Fort), 77
Lockhart, Jack, 196
Long, Amelia Reynolds, 96
Long Way Home, The (Anderson), 362
Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, 237–38
“Lost Legacy” (Heinlein), 114
Lovecraft, H. P., 68, 77, 85, 182
Lowndes, Robert, 102, 181, 344
LSD, 341
Lucas, George, 394
Lunch with John W. Campbell (film), 375
lung cancer and smoking, 374–75
MacArthur, Douglas, 160
Macaulay Company, 85
McBee, Alice, 38, 111
McCaffrey, Anne, 355, 366
McCann, Arthur (pen name), 73–74
McCarran Airport, 393
McCarthy, Joe, 336
McCartney, Paul, 398, 495n
McClary, Thomas, 105
McComas, J. Francis, 283
McCulloch, Warren, 261, 262, 268
McDonnell Aircraft, 180
McGraw-Hill, 198
“Machine, The” (Campbell), 64
MacKenzie Motors, 63–64
Mack Truck, 65–66
MacLean, Katherine, 279, 366
McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, 351
Mademoiselle, 248, 325
Madfeathers, Old Tom, 42–43
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 283, 284, 406
“Magic, Inc.” (Heinlein), 116
Magician (boat), 130–31
magnetic monopoles, 446n
Mailer, Norman, 381–83
Malzberg, Barry, 369–70, 379
Mañana Literary Society, 115, 123–24, 145, 181–82
Manhattan Project, 190, 193, 196, 224
Man Singh II, Maharajah of Jaipur, 332
Manson, Charles, 350–52
Manson Family, 350–52, 482n, 483n
Manson, Valentine Michael, 351
“Man Who Sold the Moon, The” (Heinlein), 230
Margulies, Leo, 102
marijuana, 375
“Marooned Off Vesta” (Asimov), 92–93, 94
Mars, 401, 477n
Martian, The (movie), 5
Martian Chronicles, The (Bradbury), 283
“Martian Odyssey, A” (Weinbaum), 76
Martin, George R. R., 7, 386
Marx, Karl, 105
Mary Celeste, 188
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 6, 27, 29–34, 54, 64, 189, 193, 260, 322
Masters of Sleep (Hubbard), 285
Matheson, Richard, 356
Mathison, Volney, 329
Mayflower, 21
Meccano set, 26
Meisel, Leonard, 164
Merchant Marine, U.S., 172
Mercury Theatre, 104
Merril, Judith, 223, 245, 347, 366
Merwin, Sam, Jr., 220–21
“Metal Horde, The” (Campbell), 32
Methuselah’s Children (Heinlein), 120, 143, 384
Metropolis (movie), 108, 229
Michel, John, 101, 102, 103, 103–4, 108–9, 245–46
“Microcosmic God” (Sturgeon), 124–25, 248
Middleton, James A., 28
Mightiest Machine, The (Campbell), 61–62
Mihalakis, Mike, 473n, 491n
Miller, John, 36
Miller Building, 270–71
“Mimsy Were the Borogoves” (Padgett), 182
Minsky, Marvin, 354, 381
Miscavige, David, 394, 395, 396, 402
“Misfit” (Heinlein), 112
Mission of Gravity (Clement), 320
Mitchum, Robert, 395
Modern Electrics, 75
Monroe, Lyle (pen name), 114, 386
Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The (Heinlein), 11, 340
Moon Is Hell, The (Campbell), 64, 236, 320
Moorcock, Michael, 368
Moore, Catherine L., 96, 182, 203, 245, 366, 404
Morgan, C. Parker, 270, 288–89
Moskowitz, Sam, 101, 102, 106–9, 376, 378
Mother Night (Vonnegut), 369
Murray, Richard Rush, 420n
Murrieta Hot Springs, 224
Musk, Elon, 12, 415n
Mystery Writers Association, 345
Naked Sun, The (Asimov), 318
Nanovic, John, 74–75
National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), 158, 169, 198–200
National Guard, 44
National Inventors Council, 200
National Science Fiction Convention, 101
National Youth Administration, 90, 94
Native Americans, 365
“Nature” (Emerson), 71, 137, 349
Naval Academy, U.S., 37–38, 45
Naval Reserve, U.S., 132, 157, 168
Navy Yard. See Philadelphia Navy Yard
Nazi Germany, 8, 121, 125, 141–42, 193–94
Nebula Awards, 364, 385
“Nerves” (del Rey), 122
Newark riots, 360
New Fandom, 102, 105–9
Newhouse, Samuel I., 325
New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners, 289
New Wave, 355–56
New Yorker, The, 82, 209
New York Post, 399
“Night” (Campbell), 64
“Nightfall” (Asimov), 7, 10, 138–39, 143, 158, 189
Niven, Larry, 356, 388–89
“Noise Level” (Jones), 473n
“norn,” 253–54
Norse mythology, 25, 253
Nova (Delany), 364–65
“Now You See It—” (Asimov), 220
Number of the Beast, The (Heinlein), 386
Nyby, Christian, 300
Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, 205, 231
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 195, 196, 197
O’Brien, Helen, 330–31
“Oddy and Id” (Bester), 276, 278
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), 201, 203
Office of Scientific Research, 200
Office of War Information, 187, 194
Ohio State University, 323
Oklahoma, USS, 38, 43, 152
Ole Doc Methuselah (Hubbard), 237, 253, 255, 331
Olive Tree Ranch, 392–93, 394
Omni, 387
“On Creativity” (Asimov), 1
“One Was Stubborn” (Hubbard), 117, 129
“On the Nature of Angels” (Campbell), 353, 379–80
Operating Thetan (OT), 333, 478n
Operation Barbarossa, 141–42
Operation Crossroads, 219–20
Operation Snow White. See Snow White Program
Orange Memorial Hospital, 119
Ordo Templi Orientis, 224, 231–35
Our Angry Earth (Asimov and Pohl), 406
“Our Fair City” (Heinlein), 450n
“Out of Night” (Campbell), 67
Padgett, Lewis (pen name), 182
Pal, George, 229, 255, 273
Palladino, Eusapia, 324
Palmer, Raymond, 93
Palmer, Raymond A., 463n
Panama Canal, 38
“panic generator,” 308–9
Parker, Welsford, 305–6
Parker Machine, 305–7, 316
Parsons, Jack, 204, 224, 229, 231–35, 237, 239, 331, 335–36, 385, 391
Parsons, Ruth, 335
Parsons, W. B., 195–96
Paul, Frank R., 75
Pauling, Linus, 338–39, 341
PC-815, USS, 177–79
Pearl Harbor, 151–53, 155
Pebble in the Sky (Asimov), 223, 282
Pennsylvania Turnpike, 312, 313–14
Perri, Leslie, 108, 141, 166
Petrovichi, 47, 142, 163, 172
Pettengill, Josephine B., 20, 24
Pettengill, Samuel B., 66
phenobarbital, 18, 119, 253
Phi Beta Kappa, 311
Philadelphia Navy Yard, 157–58, 160, 161, 163–73, 170, 185–88
Philadelphia Record, 212
Philippines, 158, 172–73, 205
Pic, 242–43
Pichel, Irving, 281, 336
Pierce, John R., 354
“Pigs Is Pigs” (Butler), 372
“Pilgrimage” (Asimov), 133
Pioneer Instrument Company, 66
“Piracy Preferred” (Campbell), 32
Planet Man, The (radio show), 475n
PM (newspaper), 209
Podkayne of Mars (Heinlein), 340
Poe, Edgar Allan, 5
Pohl, Frederik
Asimov and, 100, 104–5, 108, 140–41, 161, 166, 167, 218, 220, 223, 282, 284, 342, 343, 348, 350, 406
Campbell and Astounding, 80–81, 95, 115, 245, 278
dianetics and, 278, 282–83, 284
editing and agent work, 114, 136, 282, 343, 355, 387
Futurians and, 100, 102, 103, 104–5, 108, 109, 134, 181
Hubbard and, 131–32
Voyage Beyond Apollo cruise, 381–83
Polanski, Roman, 350, 482n
Popular Science, 199–200
Porter, Katherine Anne, 381
“Positive Power of Posterior Pinching, The,” 347
Pournelle, Jerry, 385, 388
Pratt, Fletcher, 116, 128, 131, 141, 155, 156, 162, 186, 201–2
Princeton University, 202
Probability Zero, 148, 182
psionics, 303–7, 316, 317, 319–20, 324, 329, 355–56, 367
Psycho (Bloch), 281
psychoanalysis, 261, 272–73, 279
psychohistory, 8, 139–40, 142, 362, 400
Puerto Rico, 46, 130
pulp magazines, 6, 47, 49, 61, 75–77, 121, 125, 247–48
Puppet Masters, The (Heinlein), 281, 284
Purcell, Don, 293, 328–29
Purple Heart, 205
Quảng Ðúc, Thích, 2
Queens Science Fiction League, 104, 105, 117–18, 238
racism, 12–13, 360–65, 366–67
Ralston, Henry, 225
Rand, Ayn, 359
Randazzo, Jasper, 376–77, 379
RAND Corporation, 319
Randi, James, 391
“reactive mind,” 250, 259, 263
Reagan, Ronald, 388–89, 406
“Reason” (Asimov), 137
“Rebellion” (Campbell), 64
Red Cross, 46, 154, 172
Red Gods Call, The (Scoggins), 60
“Red Queen’s Race, The” (Asimov), 222
“Requiem” (Heinlein), 114, 115
“Rescue Party” (Clarke), 244
Revolt in the Stars (Hubbard), 394, 395
Reynolds, Mack, 487–88n
Rhine, Joseph B., 55, 56
Rhodes, Cecil, 333
Rhodesia, 333
Rhodes Scholarship, 40
Rice, Jane, 366
Riley, Arthur E., 193–95, 197
Riley, Frank, 473n
“Roads Must Roll, The” (Heinlein), 115
“Robbie” (Asimov), 95, 136
Robertson, Ian, 376
Robot series (Asimov), 2, 95, 136–37, 167, 208, 219, 220, 282, 283, 343, 400
Rocket Ship Galileo (Heinlein), 227
Rocketship X-M (movie), 255, 336
Rocket to the Morgue (Boucher), 181–82
Rocklynne, Ross, 96, 279
Roddenberry, Gene, 5, 370–74, 399
Rogers, Don, 252–53, 270
Rogers, Hubert, 158, 159, 284
Rolling Stones, The (Heinlein), 372
Romney, Mitt, 395–96
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 338
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 57, 132, 200–201, 205–6
Roper, USS, 41–42
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 192
Rothman, Milton A., 95–96, 366
Rubinson, Jack, 99–100, 102, 103, 107
Russell, Eric Frank, 87–88, 145, 279, 304
Russian Revolution, 48
Sagan, Carl, 11–12, 383, 401
Sagan, Linda, 383
Saint Hill Manor, 332
St. Martin’s Press, 395, 396
Saito, Hiroshi, 153
Salem witch trials, 21
Sanborn, John, 289–90
San Francisco Herald-Examiner, 351
Sargasso Sea, 46
Saturday Evening Post, The, 37, 226–27, 235
Savant, Marilyn vos, 405
Schachner, Nat, 96
Schmidt, Stanley, 387
Schmitz, James, 280, 465n
Schuylkill River, 163
Schwartz, Julius, 79
Science and Sanity (Korzybski), 110–11
science fiction
cultural impact of, 4–6, 11–13, 208–9, 225, 242, 282–83, 341–42, 407–8
definitions of, 5–6, 380, 416n
diversity in, 12–13, 364
fandom, 12–13, 99–109
fanzines, 57, 100, 102
golden age of, 7, 414n
hard science fiction, 64, 414n
New Wave, 355–56
prediction in, 12, 96–97, 208–9, 297, 407–8
sociological, 134–35
space opera or superscience, 6–7, 30, 61–62
women in, 12, 13, 90–91, 348, 365–66, 458n, 488n
Science Fiction, 81
Science Fiction League, 100–101
Science Fiction Writers of America, 369
Science of Survival (Hubbard), 328
Science Wonder Stories, 50
Scientology, 9, 14, 329–35, 391–96
abuse of members in, 334–35, 392, 395
Hubbard in hiding, death, and aftermath, 390–93, 394–95, 401–2
Manson Family and, 351–52
origin of name, 329–30
past lives in, 330, 334, 394
religious status of, 231, 331–32
science fiction and, 330, 334, 335, 394
Sea Org, 333–35, 395, 401–2
Snow White Program, 391–94
Xenu story, 333–34, 335, 394, 478n
Scoggins, C. E., 60
Scoles, Albert “Buddy,” 157–58, 168–69, 185–86
scopolamine, 18, 253
Scribner, 227, 228, 337, 339
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