Sublime

It was then under the editorship of Raymond A. Palmer, a four-foot-tall hunchback with a most lively and unorthodox mind. In later years, he created, virtually single-handed, the flying saucer craze and he took to publishing magazines on pseudoscience. He died in 1977 at the age of sixty-seven. I never met him in person, but he was the first editor

triplicated.

“Who Goes There?” (August 1938 Astounding). This may possibly be the greatest science fiction story ever written.

Ted rattled from job to job until he finally turned to writing science fiction. His first story was “Ether Breathers” in the September 1939 ASF. That was one month after Heinlein’s first and two months after my first. Campbell was discovering major writers on a monthly basis in those happy days.

During the early 1950s, there was a Big Three of magazine editors: John Campbell, Horace Gold, and Tony Boucher.

His first published story was “When the Atoms Failed,” in the January 1930 Amazing. It was a time when the most famous writer in science fiction was Edward Elmer (“Doc”) Smith, who wrote “superscience stories.” Smith was the first writer to feature interstellar travel in his Skylark of Space (August, September, and October 1928 Amazing), and