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

by Alec Nevala-Lee

Delany—who had briefly met Campbell at a convention—submitted his novel Nova. He recalled of its rejection, “Campbell . . . didn’t feel his readership would be able to relate to a black main character. . . . Otherwise, he rather liked it.”