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Venkatesh Rao
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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 1
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      Lol. Asimov’s Thiotimoline parody had sparked a parody genre that made it hard to introduce Dianeyics as real 😆pic.twitter.com/9ZhcwQ7p7t

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 1
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      Now we’re into a rather sad description of Campbell unraveling under obsession with Dianetics 😢

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 1
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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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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 1
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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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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 1
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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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 1
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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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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 1
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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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    8. Crispin Cowan‏ @CrispinCowan0 Mar 1
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      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.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 1
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      Whoa. So you must be in your 70s now?

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    10. Crispin Cowan‏ @CrispinCowan0 Mar 1
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      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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 1
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      Ahh

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