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

by Alec Nevala-Lee

its author was less interested in action than in describing the spaceship, with its “six-inch iridio-tungsten alloy shell,” and in delivering endless technical lectures that might have been transcribed straight from his textbooks.

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