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

by Alec Nevala-Lee

“Deadline,” appeared in the March 1944 issue, which was out by February 11. Most readers didn’t think highly of it—one called it “mediocre fantasy”—and it ranked last in the Analytical Laboratory poll. But Campbell had a particular audience in mind.