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

by Alec Nevala-Lee

it was a repellent combination of radical weirdness and smug complacency, with the barest hint of what it might have been if the reader had been able to care about the characters.

RAH's I Will Fear No Evil