THE ENEMY WITHINAUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
This is another first extraterrestrial yarn, but with a difference since so much of it is John W. Campbell that I should have shared the by-line with him. The late editor of Analog, under the pseudonym Don Stuart, wrote quite a bit of s-f himself before taking over what was then called Astounding Stories. At the helm of the most prestigious magazine in the field, he began firing off letters to his favorite writers with astounding èlan. They would often run to half a dozen single-spaced pages of story ideas. In my time, I have received scores of these. This story is a result of one of the more lengthy missives.
And, oh, yes, that bit of business about the human mouth and how unique it is must be credited to the late Nobel Prize winner Herman “Joe” Mul
