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

by Alec Nevala-Lee

by reintroducing a sense of melancholy to the pulps, it single-handedly ushered in the modern age of science fiction. At first, however, it didn’t seem that the story he called “Twilight” would have any impact at all.