![]() When I heard about this book and read some reviews, I thought it would be just what I wanted: a book about the magazine and it’s editor’s influence on the SF of the decades 40s-50s-60s. Though later I read both Galaxy and Fantasy & Science Fiction, Astounding remained my favorite up to and a little past the time it changed name its to Analog. For me, then Astounding was a fiction magazine, pure and simple. I read and loved those issues too, again skipping the editorial content, in which I had no interest. Over three visits I bought all of 1950 through 1954. I gobbled up every issue as it came in the mail.Ī few years later I discovered a used magazine store in downtown Los Angeles who sold back issues by the year, tied in twine. But my focus was on the short stories and serialized longer works. ![]() I completely ignored the editorial material, and generally skipped the fact article, unless it was by Willie Ley, whose articles on rockets I found interesting. I loved the covers, the stories, the interior illustrations (Kelly Freas was my favorite) and the book reviews. ![]() I started reading reading Astounding Science Fiction in 1955, at age ten. Ron Hubbard and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee, Day Street Books, October 2018 hardcover, 544 pages. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, L. ![]()
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