Now we’re into a rather sad description of Campbell unraveling under obsession with Dianetics 
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Okay will skip lightly over the rest of this bit. We’re now at the point where Heinlein and Asimov reject the hard sell initiation attempts into Dianetics and get on with their lives.
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Ray Bradbury enters as first major non-Campbell stable talent. Asimov starts selling to other outlets via Pohl. The fellowship of Astounding is unraveling as Dianetics eats it.
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Horace Gold gets both Heinlein and Asimov contributing to Galaxy. The Astounding monopoly ends. This feels like the PC entering the market Apple created. Action shifting to books and movies as well.
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Lol, the casual use of denouncing people as communists to the FBI in the 1950s is an interesting footnote. Weapon of choice in institutional infighting of the decade it seems. Like revenge porn today.
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Damn. Now I want to collect a few issues of Astounding. There’s an 8 volume anthology but I’d like originals. Found one for $5. Wonder if there are archives with complete collection anywhere.
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WHOA it’s all online looks like wtf. There goes the rest of my 2020. https://archive.org/search.php?query=Astounding%20Science%20Fiction%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts …
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And now we have early Duanetics imploded, Campbell remarried and now exploring his 2.0 concept, Psionics
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Revised ranking of who I want to model my Act 2 after. Asimov Heinlein Campbell Hubbard I relate far less to Act 2 Campbell. He comes across as credulous, traumatized, and broken. Messianic obsessive.
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You are aware that Campbell was terrible, right?https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-evil-that-men-do-lives-after-them …
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