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![]() ![]() Frederik Pohl’s “Pohl Selections” over at Bantam Books brought the world Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren (I’m still reading it…) and Joanna Russ’ The Female Man, arguably the two most genre-defying science fiction books of all time. ![]() Ron Hubbard would win a Nobel Prize for Dianetics, but he also published the first Robert Heinlein and Theodore Sturgeon stories. Campbell, considered the most important editor in the history of science fiction, was a hawkish kook convinced that L. ![]() Since the genre was shaped by decades of magazine publishing, the editors of those magazines - rags like Amazing Stories, Galaxy, Analog Science Fiction, and New Worlds - have largely defined what we consider the “canon.” And, of course, each editor has their own peccadilloes and accompanying infamy. One thing that hasn’t been discussed yet on this blog is the major role that editors have historically played in the sci-fi scene. ![]()
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