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

by Alec Nevala-Lee

Its unquestioned peak was “A Martian Odyssey” by Stanley Weinbaum, whose untimely death in 1935 prompted Asimov to write later, “If Weinbaum had lived . . . there would have been no Campbell revolution. All that Campbell could have done would have been to reinforce what would undoubtedly have come to be called ‘the Weinbaum revolution.’ ”