Astounding
| Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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| description | American science fiction magazine |
| First edition | January 1930 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| editor | Stanley Schmidt |
| Web link | www.analogsf.com |
| ISSN (print) | 0003-2603 |
Astounding , originally Astounding Stories of Super Science is a monthly American science fiction - magazine , which for the first time in January 1930 as a pulp magazine was published and after several name changes until today under the name of Analog Science Fiction and Fact published is . This makes it the longest-running, non-stop science fiction magazine in the United States. It is known as the ASF by fans of the genre .
From 1981 to 1984, Pabel-Moewig Verlag published an eight-volume analog series in German in paperback with stories from the American analog that were current at the time .
editor
During the first years of its existence, the magazine was published by Harry Bates (1930-1933) and F. Orlin Tremaine (1933-1938). In 1938, John W. Campbell Jr. took over . Astounding and remained its editor until his death in 1971. He changed the name in 1938 to Astounding Science Fiction and again in 1960 to Analog Science Fact and Fiction , as the old one seemed too sensational to him. He was followed by Ben Bova (1972–1978) and then in 1978 Stanley Schmidt , who has held this position to this day. In November 1992 he gave the magazine its current name, Analog Science Fiction and Fact .
The Golden age"
When it was taken over by John W. Campbell, the nature of the stories that appeared in Astounding changed . While there were still stories that focused on tech gimmicks and gadgets and action, Campbell encouraged his writers to write and think about how future technology would affect the lives of mankind as well.
Campbell formulated a manifesto for astounding , according to which science fiction should represent the literary form of a scientific laboratory and the results of research should be related to humans and their environment.
This new breed of science fiction that appeared in Astounding quickly made the magazine a leader in the SF magazine market. Many authors who had initially written for other magazines switched to Astounding . Campbell also gave many new authors a chance. With these changes, Astounding , and with it Campbell, ushered in the so-called "golden age" of science fiction.
According to Alva Rogers , the July 1939 issue was "... the first real harbinger of Astounding's Golden Age." In this issue, A. E. van Vogt's story Black Destroyer appeared .
Stories by Theodore Sturgeon , Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov first appeared in 1939 . The three laws of robotics that Asimov had formulated in collaboration with Campbell were first described in an Astounding edition, and Arthur C. Clarke's first short story appeared in Astounding in 1946 .
Campbell, who was very interested in atomic physics , published a story by Cleve Cartmill in 1944 called Deadline . A short time later, agents of the military secret service appeared in Campbell's office, because in Deadline the development of an atomic bomb is described, which was fatally similar to the Manhattan project. However, Cartmill had only condensed all freely available information into a story.
In the 1950s, Astounding developed into a magazine that preached the control of the environment through technology. Many readers and authors (including James White and Brian Aldiss ) saw it as the magazine's decline.
Web links
- The homepage of the magazine
- Astounding in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)