Let There Be Fandom, Part 4: New Deal, New Worlds
The Depression had settled in, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated a week or two after Dirk Wylie and I met, and there was talk of a New Deal. Society seemed to be evolving into something...
View ArticleBasement and Empire
Introduction This arrived without warning from my old friend Andrew Porter, once the editor and publisher of Algol/Science Fiction Chronicle, the only real competition Locus ever had. Andy didn’t...
View ArticleThe Campbell Letters
Fantasy Commentator Sam Moskowitz and A. Langley Searles Memorial Issue, Special Double Issue, Nos. 59 & 60. When John W. Campbell, Jr., washed out of MIT by failing to pass their German course,...
View ArticleThe Reunion at the Mile-High
I haven’t been in the habit of putting my own stories in the blog, but there are one or two that I think belong here. “The Reunion at the Mile-High” was one. I wrote it as a “festschrift” story for...
View ArticleAre We Going to Repeat History?
I remember The Depression pretty well, not only because I saw some of it with my own eyes (I was 11 in 1931) but because I did a lot of research on it for a book I never published. What you youngsters...
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