byThere’s little doubt of it anymore. Astounding is hitting the skids. Oh, Campbell is still a damned good editor, probably one of the three or four best in the field. That much is acknowledged fact. But I just wonder how much of Campbell’s ebullient praise nowadays is merely reflection of what he was in the “Bedsheet Days” when Astounding consistently featured line-ups of Padgett, van Vogt, Heinlein, del Rey, Hubbard, Ley and Richardson. How much of the “Oh, get JWC’s opinion, he’s top dog in the field,” is merely wishful thinking on the parts of those who wish JWC was putting out a magazine like the Bright Blue Flame that was his pet in the late thirties and early forties?
AstoundingFor when you pan Astounding Science Fiction, brother, you necessarily pan John w. Campbell, Jr., a man of
