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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2021

      1. The two big sci-fi epics of this fall are Dune & Foundation, which spring from the same source: John W. Campbell's Astounding magazine (remained Analog in 1960). Which also gave the world Starship Troopers, the Thing, and, oh, yes, various religions, including Scientology.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2021

      2. John W. Campbell, the editor of Astounding, was both a visionary and complete crackpot. He was a formative influence on many careers (Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert). Also a promoter of, variously, a perpetual motion machine, ESP, slavery, smoking & Dianetics

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2021

      3. Campbell was type of contrarian crank of the type all too familiar to us today: a failed engineer, he banged off editorials on the merits of slavery (calling for its revival), deriding the idea that smoking was bad for you & promoting Dianetics as a cure for health problems

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2021

      4. Lately there has been a lot of controversy about Campbell in science fiction circles because of his pretty brutal racism (his name was taken off a big award). Frank Herbert's Dune itself shows Campbell's ambiguous legacy was sometimes use against him.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2021

      5. Campbell's Analog was the top-paying sci fi magazine in its time & lots of writers cynically tailored their stories to fit Campbell's various obsessions: ESP, genetic supermen, human conquest of universe, eugenics etc. Frank Herbert put all that in Dune: but with a twist

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2021

          6. One way to read Dune is that Herbert took all the things that made Campbell excited (ESP, superman, galactic imperial conquest, eugenics) but showed the downsides: he inverted Campbell's universe (mostly in later books not serialized in Analog).

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2021

          7. Lots more going on in Dune: a prescient critique of resource extraction imperialism & US foreign policy, the myth of Lawrence of Arabia, Catholicism, Islam, Indigenous cultures (particularly the Quileute). @DavidKlion & I talk about this & more here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/dune-bugs?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source= …

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        2. barabashka‏ @narbi16 3 Oct 2021
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          Well, that explains Heinlein (although still doesn’t explain why his bs is so popular)

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        3. "Remember to Love Each Other" Cooney‏ @CallumCooney 3 Oct 2021
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          I suspect it is because men like Cambell never went away in the sf fandom.

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        1. Jason Goldman‏Verified account @goldman 3 Oct 2021
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          The letters between Herbert and Campbell on Messiah are revealing

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        1. PseudonymousBear‏ @pseudo_ursus 3 Oct 2021
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          Philip K. Dick's introduction to "The Golden Man" collection as 'stories that broke all of Campbell's rules' (or something like that). He's not the only author of the period who seemed to have relished earning the standing to no longer have to play to the editor.

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