And the team was about to expand. In the September 1939 issue, Campbell predicted, “Astounding will find and develop not less than four now-unknown top-rank new authors during the next year.” Van Vogt was one obvious discovery. Others were waiting in the wings. And before the summer was over, the golden age would find its embodiment in a writer whose life would entwine with Campbell’s—and Asimov’s—in ways that none of them could have foreseen.
