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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (Review) Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:47:12 -0400
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Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/24/25 06:06, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein,
>> L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec
>> Nevala-Lee
>>
>> A look at four men (and the women in their lives) who shaped American SF.
>>
>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/fab-four
> 
>      Hubbard should be excluded as he is/was a fantasist who got 
> gullible people to
> take him seriously.

I would include A.E. Van Vogt who was very prolific in those years, and 
whose writings were influential even decades later.

Hubbard was for a while also frequently published in Astounding, but I 
feel that his later notoriety was what got him entry to this book.

But anybody who takes Patterson seriously is not themselves worth taking 
seriously.

William Hyde