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

by Alec Nevala-Lee

One raved in a letter to Unknown, “Give me the L. Ron Hubbard fairy tale any time and I’m happy.” In the following issue, he added: “With Hubbard . . . I consider anything below perfect a letdown.” The reader who wrote these words was Isaac Asimov.