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Oh shit Shannon got roped into it too?pic.twitter.com/mwJMwf0rX2
So tldr of this subplot: Hubbard went back and forth on computer metaphor of mind, ultimately abandoning it, Campbell convinced himself there was a link via cybernetics. His influence just launched Scientology with cybernetics branding, which both sides disavowed later.
Lol. Asimov’s Thiotimoline parody had sparked a parody genre that made it hard to introduce Dianeyics as real
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Now we’re into a rather sad description of Campbell unraveling under obsession with Dianetics 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Obsessively collecting Analog/Astounding was my hobby as a teen. I have a thousand or so. Regrettably, while i have read a lot, I have not made a dent in reading them.
Whoa. So you must be in your 70s now?
No. As a teen i haunted SF book stores and bought 25 year old Analog issues for 75 cents a piece.
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