Dell Magazines have changed the Campbell Award to the Astounding Award, removing the name of fascist John W Campbell

[gracchus]

@Brainspore

To be clear, are you unironically presenting “he brought the world L. Ron Hubbard!” as a point in his favor?

Wait, was Campbell as much of a chiseler on the per-word rate as Gernsback? If so, he may be partially responsible for encouraging both Hubbard’s logorrheic prose and, on the basis the story of its origin, his horrible cult.

Mormon missionaries share awful pickup lines before homeowner opens door

Here’s a discussion of the story, where the SF convention (the Eastern Science Fiction Association in Newark, NJ) in 1947 or 1948 figures in one way or another. Key quotes: Sam Merwin, then the editor of the Thrilling SF magazines: "Around this time he was invited to address a science fiction group in Newark hosted by the writer, Sam Moskowitz. `Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous,’ he told the meeting. “If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start…