A Requiem for Astounding

by Alva Rogers

With editorial comments by Harry Bates, F. Orlin Tremaine, and John W. Campbell. Advent: Publishers, Chicago, IL. September 1970 (Second Paperbound Printing). Trade paperback. 224 pages. (5½ X 8½). Author’s Preface by the author. Editorial Number One by Harry Bates. Editorial Number Two by F. Orlin Tremaine. Editorial Number Three by John W. Campbell. Acknowledgments by the author. A very readable history of the magazine Astounding Science Fiction is presented by Rogers. The story covers up to the point when the magazine becomes Analog Science Fact - Fiction. A number of Astounding magazine covers and drawings are included with the text.

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