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

by Alec Nevala-Lee

Many authors would be excused for health reasons—if they had been better physical specimens, they might not have been writers at all—but it didn’t take long for Campbell to find that even those who escaped the draft would be hard to keep.