Sea Organization (Sea Org), 333–35, 395, 401–2
Secret of Treasure Island, The (movie), 85, 86
Seldes, Tim, 348
Seldon, Hari, 415n
Sensuous Dirty Old Man, The (Asimov), 347
Serendipity Inc., 305–6
Serling, Rod, 350
servomechanisms, 260
Seth Low Junior College, 52, 90
Seven Dwarfs, 391
sexism, 12, 90–91, 347–48, 365–66
Shadow, The, 8, 50–51, 415n
Shadow Out of Time, The (Lovecraft), 77
Shannon, Claude, 262, 268, 319
Shasta Press, 455n
Share, Catherine “Gypsy,” 350–51, 483n
Shatner, William, 371–72
Shaver Mystery, 463n
Sheldon, Alice Bradley, 366
Shelley, Mary, 5
Sherred, T. L., 248
Shiras, Wilmar, 366, 458n
Shrine Auditorium, 285–86
Shuster, Joe, 100
Siegel, Jerry, 100
Silverberg, Robert, 320–21, 322, 357, 366
Simak, Clifford, 93, 473n
Simpson, George Gaylord, 346
Sinclair, Upton, 39, 109–10
Sinister Barrier (Russell), 145
Sixth Column (Heinlein), 120, 332, 386
Skylark of Space, The (Smith and Garby), 30, 32, 39, 76
Slan (van Vogt), 123, 357
slavery, 362–63
Slaves of Sleep (Hubbard), 127
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 349
Sloane, T. O’Conor, 30–31
Smith, Douglas, 324
Smith, E. E. “Doc,” 61
Amazing stories, 30, 32, 39, 76
Asimov and, 77
Astounding stories, 77–78, 143, 245
Campbell and, 30, 31, 33, 143, 213, 245, 356
Heinlein and, 39
Hubbard and, 330
Smith, George O., 336, 391
affair with and marriage to Doña, 210, 211, 248–49, 264, 265, 274, 324, 391, 401
background of, 199
Campbell and, 199–200, 201–2, 208, 210, 211, 246, 275–76, 378
during World War II, 199–200, 201–2, 208, 210, 211
Smith, Gerald, 305
smoking, 254, 374–75
Smolensk, 47, 172
Snow White Program, 391–94
Society for Creative Anachronism, 379
“Solarite” (Campbell), 32–33
“Solution Unsatisfactory” (Heinlein), 213–14, 225–26
sonar, 198–200
Soviet Union, 47, 110, 141–42, 172, 253, 338
Space Cadet (Heinlein), 229
“Space Rays” (Campbell), 57, 60
space shuttle Challenger disaster, 402
Spanish-American War, 36
Spengler, Oswald, 139
Spielberg, Steven, 398, 495n
Sportsman Pilot, 45
Sputnik, 2, 324–25, 338, 476n
Stanton, L. Jerome, 199, 201–2, 203, 210, 246
Stars, Like Dust, The (Asimov), 284
Starship Troopers (Heinlein), 339
Star Trek (TV show), 5, 370–74
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (movie), 399
Star Wars (movies), 124, 393–94, 399
“Star Wars” (Strategic Defense Initiative), 388–89
Statendam, SS, 381–82
Statue of Liberty, 50
Stern, Bernhard J., 94, 336
Stine, G. Harry, 308, 363, 381, 472n
Stone, Leslie F., 488n
Strahorn, Dorothy, 20, 21, 24
Strahorn, Harry, 20
strain gauges, 354–55
Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein), 340, 341–42, 356–57, 384, 483n
“Stranger Than Fiction” (Klein), 212–13
Street & Smith, 47, 61, 65, 68, 74–75, 77, 85, 91, 92, 121, 225, 247–48, 325
Stuart, Don A. (pen name), 51, 62, 63, 64, 79, 91, 92, 115, 118, 236, 244. See also Campbell, John W., Jr.
Sturgeon, Theodore, 75, 223
Astounding stories, 124–25, 134, 248
Campbell and, 201, 203, 210–11, 309, 357, 374
death of, 404
dianetics and, 280, 309
Star Trek and, 371
Sturgeon’s Law, 75
Voyage Beyond Apollo cruise, 381, 383
during World War II, 180, 199, 201, 203
Sulfathiazole, 177
Superman, 100
Superman story, 9, 114, 122–23, 357–58
Super Science Stories, 114, 136
Suppressive Person, 258, 332
Swarthmore College, 125
Swisher, Frances, 64
Swisher, Robert, 64, 68–69, 79–80, 88, 105, 116, 131, 168–69, 185, 197, 265
“Sword of Achilles, The” (Asimov), 3–4, 5–6, 11, 13
Sykora, William, 101, 102, 106, 107–8
tachyons, 359–60
Tanner, William, 36
Tarrant, Catherine “Kay,” 333, 376
at Astounding, 12, 78–79, 80–81, 92, 95, 120, 246, 276, 287, 369, 370, 378, 379
background of, 78
retirement and death of, 401
Tate, Sharon, 350, 351, 482n, 483n
Taurasi, James, 106–7
Taylor, Elizabeth, 4
telepathy, 39, 55–56, 303–4, 382, 470n
Teller, Edward, 190
“thanatosphere,” 382
“That Only a Mother” (Merril), 245
Theosophy, 40
thetans, 330, 478n
“They’d Rather Be Right” (Clifton and Riley), 473n
Thing, The (movie), 7, 399, 495–96n
Thing from Another World, The (movie), 7, 299–300, 399
Thompson, Joseph C. “Snake,” 43–44
“thought variant” story, 77
Three Laws of Robotics, 10, 12, 14, 137, 348–49
“Three Thousand Years” (McClary), 105
Thrilling Adventure, 83, 84
Thrilling Wonder Stories, 67, 79, 81, 111, 220
“time binding,” 111, 125
Time Enough for Love (Heinlein), 384
“Time Pussy” (Asimov), 148, 153
Top-Notch, 85
To the Stars (Hubbard), 255
Toynbee, Arnold, 139, 415n
“Tramp, The” (Hubbard), 87
Transcendental Meditation, 332
Travolta, John, 396
Tremaine, F. Orlin, 87, 104
at Astounding, 61–66, 68–69, 77–80, 82, 85–86, 370–71
at Comet, 467n
Trembley, Rosario Honore, 420n
“Trends” (Asimov), 96, 133, 336
Trojan War, 3–4
“Trouble with Tribbles, The” (Star Trek episode), 372
Truman, Harry, 253, 480n
Trumbo, Dalton, 336
tuberculosis, 42, 152
Tunnel in the Sky (Heinlein), 337
Twelve Against the Gods (Bolitho), 35, 330–31, 335, 477n
“Twilight” (Campbell), 51, 61, 62
Twilight Zone, The (TV series), 350
2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), 348, 382
Typewriter in the Sky (Hubbard), 131–32, 386
“Ugly Little Boy, The” (Campbell), 344–45
Ultimate Adventure, The (Hubbard), 88, 128
“Uncertainty” (Campbell), 66–67
Unification Church, 332
“Universe” (Heinlein), 120, 142–43
University of Alabama, 2
University of California, Berkeley, 323
University of California, Los Angeles, 40
University of Kansas, 401
University of Michigan, 21
University of Oklahoma, 365
University of Wisconsin, 274
Unknown, 87–88, 111, 114, 121, 122, 127, 128–29, 131, 166–67, 183–84, 246, 283
“Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, The” (Heinlein), 159–60
“Unwillingly
to School” (Ashwell), 488n
Updike, John, 347
uranium, 96, 141, 243–44
uranium-235 (U-235), 188, 192–93, 243
Urey, Harold, 133, 141, 206
“urge field,” 305–6
Van Houten, Leslie, 352
Van Vogt, A. E., 133, 142, 183, 299–300, 396
Astounding stories, 96, 97, 123, 180–81
dianetics and, 237, 244, 272, 280, 286, 287–88, 335
Star Trek and, 371
during World War II, 181
Verne, Jules, 5, 25, 50
Vietnam War, 2, 359, 486n
Vigilante Day Parade, 44
“Vintage Season” (Moore), 245
Vogue, 359
“Voice of the Void, The” (Campbell), 32
Von Braun, Wernher, 193–94, 447n
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 117, 369
Voyage Beyond Apollo, 381–83
Vreeland, Diana, 359
“Waldo” (Heinlein), 159–60
Wallace, George, 2, 368
“Wall of Fire, The” (Hubbard), 333–34
Wall Street Journal, 209
Walter, W. Grey, 308–9
Walters, Barbara, 400
war game (Pratt), 116, 128, 131, 141, 162
War of the Worlds, The (radio drama), 104, 431–32n
waterbeds, 42
“waveform generator,” 475n
Weinbaum, Stanley, 76, 401
Weiner, Rex, 383
Weird Tales, 30
Weisinger, Mort, 67, 81, 104, 366
Welch, Bob, 341
Welch, Raquel, 348
Welles, Orson, 121–22, 220
The War of the Worlds, 104, 431–32n
Wellesley College, 24, 313
Wells, H. G., 6, 37, 61, 111, 401
Wensel, H. T., 196
Western Electric, 253
Western Story, 85
Westwood Nurses Registry, 290
What to Audit (Hubbard), 330
“When the Atoms Failed” (Campbell), 30–32
“When the Bough Breaks” (Padgett), 182
“Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?” (Heinlein), 338–39
“Who Goes There?” (Campbell), 7, 68, 79, 123, 299–300, 399
Wiener, Norbert, 29, 33, 56, 260, 261, 262, 279
Wilhelm, Kate, 366
Williams, Robert Moore, 280, 465n
Williams College, 301–2, 311
Williamson, Jack, 106, 228, 297
Astounding stories, 81–82, 139–40, 180, 303, 356
background of, 81
dianetics and, 278–79, 303
psychohistory and, 139–40
Wilson, Dick, 102
Wilson, Richard, 103
Winchell, Walter, 257
Winchester Pictures, 299–300
Winter, Joey, 255–56
Winter, Joseph, Jr., 273–74
Astounding articles, 250–51, 256–57, 268
dianetics and, 253, 255–59, 261, 268, 270, 287, 289, 291, 292, 293, 302, 310, 328
Winter, Joseph, Sr., 253
Wolfe, Tom, 383
Wollheim, Donald A., 100–109, 103, 181, 209
Wonder Stories, 57, 61, 65, 76, 77, 100
World of Null-A, The (van Vogt), 244, 259, 275, 329
World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), 101–2, 105–9
1941, 144–45
1947, 220–21
1959, 345
1966, 365, 371
1968, 359
World War I, 43
World War II, 47, 125, 151–214
effect on pulps, 125, 180, 183
rationing, 167–68, 183
science fiction in, 180–84
science and technology in, 125, 184–88, 200, 206, 213
X Minus One (radio show), 475n
Xenu, 334, 335, 394, 478n
Yom Kippur, 164–65
Young Atomic Engineers and the Conquest of the Moon, The (Heinlein), 226
Young Communist League, 80, 100, 105
Yuma International Airport, 290
Zener, Karl, 55–56
Zener cards, 55–56
Zitin, Bernard, 164
About the Author
ALEC NEVALA-LEE was born in Castro Valley, California, and graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor’s degree in classics. He is the author of three novels, including The Icon Thief, and his stories have been published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Lightspeed Magazine, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction. His nonfiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Beast, Salon, Longreads, the Rumpus, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He lives with his wife and daughter in Oak Park, Illinois.
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