, Asimov notes Campbell's presence at Duke and speculates that Duke was "best known in my youth for the work of Joseph B. He then spent one year at Duke University, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1932. By the time he was 21 he was a well-known pulp writer of super-science space opera but had been dismissed by MIT: he had failed German. He began writing science fiction at age 18 and quickly sold his first stories. Campbell attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he befriended Norbert Wiener, one of the godfathers of computers. John was unable to tell them apart and was frequently coldly rebuffed by the person he took to be his mother.
His mother, Dorothy (née Strahern) was warm but changeable of character and had an identical twin who visited them often and who disliked young John.
His father was a cold, impersonal, and unaffectionate electrical engineer. Heinlein to the point where they no longer submitted works to him.Ĭampbell was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1910. Isaac Asimov, in his autobiography, calls Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever, and for the first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely." At the time of his sudden and unexpected death after 34 years at the helm of Astounding, however, his quirky personality and occasionally eccentric editorial demands had alienated a number of his most illustrious writers such as Asimov and Robert A. In that role he is generally credited with helping to create the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction, which is often held to have started with the July 1939 issue of Astounding. However, Campbell's primary influence on the science-fiction field was as the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, a post that he held from late 1937 until his death. Stuart, a pseudonym he used for moodier, less pulpish stories. As a writer he was first influential under his own name as a writer of super-science space opera and then under the name Don A. ( J– July 11, 1971) was an influential science-fiction writer and editor.
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