Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction

by Alec Nevala-Lee

“I think [Campbell] saw himself as fulfilling Socrates’ function as gadfly. . . . There were times when I feverishly wished I had a cup of hemlock handy—for him, of course.”

Asimov