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   Introduction to “John Campbell and the Modern SF Idiom” by Ben Bova  It saddens me to realize that an entire generation of science fiction writers and readers has now grown up without knowing John Campbell. John W. Campbell Jr., as he insisted on being bylined, died in 1971. From 1937 until then, he was [...]

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                         By 1955 I had exhausted all of the books in the Bellaire, Texas library on earthquakes, volcanoes, and dinosaurs. It was a sad day when I finished the last Roy Chapman Andrews book. So I began looking around for something else to read and came across a book called Danger, Dinosaurs! By Richard Marsten. [...]

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