The average person recognizes 5,000 faces |Nature Briefing(6)

A new book offers a portrait of four people who helped to shape modern science fiction: John W. Campbell — long-time editor of the magazine Astounding Science Fiction — and three of his key writers: genre giants Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, and pulp author L. Ron Hubbard. Rob Latham, a science-fiction editor himself, lauds the book as a “rich, gripping cultural and historical study of how a small cadre of talents in a minor commercial genre became some of the most influential figures of the second half of the twentieth century”.

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