writing to Heinlein in their discussion of Citizen of the Galaxy, “Slavery is a useful educational system; it has a place in the development of a race, just as the tyranny of parents has a place in the educational development of an individual.” Heinlein responded that he didn’t have the time to answer Campbell’s “interesting letter” at length. Unlike Asimov, he knew better than to take the bait. Yet he never forgot it, and it inspired a novel, Farnham’s Freehold, that was conceived in part as a response. Its characters—including the protagonist’s alcoholic wife—are thrown by an atomic bomb
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