Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1965 November

by John W. Campbell Jr. (Editor), Mack Reynolds, John Brunner

Colloid and Crystalloid • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Down Styphon! • [Kalvan] • novelette by H. Beam Piper
Even Chance • shortstory by John Brunner
Problem in Thermodynamics • essay by uncredited
A Long Way to Go • shortstory by Robert Conquest
Some Preliminary Notes on FASEG • shortstory by Laurence M. Janifer and Frederick W. Kantor
Onward and Upward with Space Power • essay by J. Frank Coneybear
Space Pioneer (Part 3 of 3) • serial by Mack Reynolds

164 pages

Published November 1, 1965

About the author

John Wood Campbell, Jr. was an influential figure in American science fiction. As editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact), from late 1937 until his death, he is generally credited with shaping the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction.

Isaac Asimov called Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever, and for the first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely."

As a writer, Campbell published super-science space opera under his own name and moody, less pulpish stories as Don A. Stuart. He stopped writing fiction after he became editor of Astounding.

Known Pseudonyms/Alternate Names:

Don A. Stuart
Karl van Campen
John Campbell
J. W. C., Jr.
John W. Campbell
John Wood Campbell

Reviews

[Kevin Phyland · Rating 3 out of 5]

The lead story is H. Beam Piper’s last published tale “Down Styphon”, where the Pennsylvania state trooper who accidentally got sent across timelines is being monitored by the Paratime Police because he is introducing gunpowder to the natives of the primitive era. More a prolonged description of a battle than a story per se, it isn’t one of Piper’s better yarns. When a primitive Burmese native boy seeks out a white-man camp with a piece of aircraft wreckage it triggers amazement as the boy is suffering serious radiation sickness. John Brunner’s “Even Chance” posits a very strange and unsettling cause of the wreckage. Mack Reynolds closes the issue with the conclusion of “Space Pioneer”, where the would-be assassin Enger Castriota now meets one of the local humanoids and makes a surprising discovery which upsets the planned exploitation of New Arizona for good, while simultaneously finding the original quarry of his vendetta. Nicely tied up loose ends.