Hugo and Locus Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearAMilwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018An amazing and engrossing history...Insightful, entertaining, and compulsively readable. George R. R. MartinAstounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writersJohn W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbardwho set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world.This remarkable cultural narrative centers on the figure of John W. Campbell, Jr., whom Asimov called the most powerful force in science fiction ever. Campbell, who has never been the subject of a biography until now, was both a visionary authorhe wrote the story that was later filmed as The Thingand the editor of the groundbreaking magazine best known as Astounding Science Fiction, in which he discovered countless legendary writers and published classic works ranging from the I, Robot series to Dune. Over a period of more than thirty years, from the rise of the pulps to the debut of Star Trek, he dominated the genre, and his three closest collaborators reached unimaginable heights. Asimov became the most prolific author in American history Heinlein emerged as the leading science fiction writer of his generation with the novels Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land and Hubbard achieved lasting fameand infamyas the founder of the Church of Scientology.Drawing on unexplored archives, thousands of unpublished...

Binding: Paperback;544 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: BGL; Weight: 526 g; Dimensions: 135 x 204 x 29

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