A review by derekjohnston
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee

emotional informative reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.0

An interesting and engaging group biography of key figures in the development of US SF, centred on John W.Campbell, and the shifting relationships between him, Heinlein, Hubbard and Asimov, with numerous others moving around them. This doesn't shy away from the less appealing aspects of each person, and it presents them as having shifting attitudes rather than being fixed. It helps to explain some of those shifts, and so the knock-on effects that they might have had more widely.