Occupation: Author Birth: April 26, 1912 Death: January 26, 2000
The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to br….
The right to buy weapons is the right to be free..
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old..
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should i….
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories..
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then writ….
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way..
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look….
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary ty….
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior..
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights..
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader..
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Chr….