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March 3 - March 8, 2019
William Tanner was killed Hagedorn, Savage Peace, 335–36.
Sounds like an entirely different incident.
In 1934 . . . [JWC] came to me with a stack of short stories from his morgue, and unsmiling told me he wanted one cent per word for them—double our usual rate. I told this to Gernsback and also noted that these stories must have been rejects from his childhood, as none of them were any good. I had the dubious duty of returning stories to John W. Campbell, Jr. He hated me ever after.” Charles Hornig, interview in Galileo, November 1979, 23.
he also wrote Heinlein directly In one of Asimov’s early letters, now lost, he joked that God had all the good press agents, while Satan “wasn’t getting a fair shake,” which RAH credited decades later as the inspiration for his novel Job: A Comedy of Justice. RAH to Asimov, August 8, 1984.
Ray Bradbury joked Virginia Heinlein to William H. Patterson, Jr., August 15, 1999. A rather different account appears in Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles, 114–15.
some nude photos Asimov later came to believe that these images were of L. Sprague de Camp’s wife, Catherine. In Memory Yet Green, 503. However, de Camp stated elsewhere that she only met the Heinleins after their move to Philadelphia. Catherine de Camp, foreword to Gifford, Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader’s Companion, vi.
“working my heart out” RAH to G. Harry Stine, July 27, 1954. Virginia Heinlein later wrote in the essay “Science Fiction and John W. Campbell, Jr.”: “It is my private opinion that John’s lack of wartime service to his country did as much to destroy the friendship as anything which happened between the two men.” RAH Archives, UC Santa Cruz.
Rocket to the Morgue The book included thinly veiled portraits of RAH, LRH, and Jack Williamson. Boucher had never met LRH, but based the portrayal on descriptions by others. JWC to Robert Swisher, October 21, 1942.
“There might be a story in this thought” Berger, “The Astounding Investigation,” 132, and Silverberg, “Reflections: The Cleve Cartmill Affair: One,” 4. JWC’s assertion that uranium had been separated in “quantities measured in pounds” was premature—Oak Ridge wouldn’t possess such amounts until around the autumn of 1944. Berger, The Magic That Works, 69.
Wernher von Braun “In wartime days, Wernher von Braun had been able to get his treasured subscription copies only by means of a false name and a neutral mail drop in Sweden.” Frederik Pohl, “Astounding: The Campbell Years, Part 2,” December 7, 2009, http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/12/astounding-campbell-years-part-2 (accessed December 2017). JWC wrote to John L. Nanovic on November 30, 1951: “Count von Braun, who developed the V-2 in Germany, and is now at White Sands, was reading ASF all during the war—at considerable expense and trouble.”
Hubbard also slept with Leslyn Virginia Heinlein to William H. Patterson, Jr., October 1, 1999. Patterson believed that this affair took place after the war, but the reference in the “Affirmations” clearly dates it to the Philadelphia period: “During my Princeton sojourn I was very tired and harassed . . . and spent weekends with a writer friend in Philadelphia. He almost forced me to sleep with his wife.” “He almost forced me to sleep with his wife” LRH, “Affirmations.” her husband and
