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72-468: In 1941 John W. Campbell of Astounding Science Fiction began a new department, "Probability Zero", for very short stories. He hoped to publish new writers, but wanted experienced authors early on, including Isaac Asimov . To Asimov's surprise, Campbell rejected " Big Game " and "First Law" in November and December 1941. Having learned that a rejected story might sell elsewhere, he saved "First Law" until it

144-542: A 2006 exhibit at the museum entitled DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein . The exhibit included Roy Lichtenstein 's The Kiss (1962), Pierre-Auguste Renoir 's The Reader (1877), Vincent van Gogh 's Orchard with Peach Trees in Blossom (1888), Pablo Picasso 's Four Bathers (1921) and several works of art from Claude Monet including one of the Water Lilies paintings (1919) and The Mula Palace (1908). Since then

216-461: A Campbell editorial and keep my temper). Damon Knight described Campbell as a "portly, bristled-haired blond man with a challenging stare". "Six-foot-one, with hawklike features, he presented a formidable appearance," said Sam Moskowitz . "He was a tall, large man with light hair, a beaky nose, a wide face with thin lips, and with a cigarette in a holder forever clamped between his teeth", wrote Asimov. Algis Budrys wrote that "John W. Campbell

288-519: A button hook. You've never stopped hating her for it." Bester commented: "It reinforced my private opinion that a majority of the science-fiction crowd, despite their brilliance, were missing their marbles." Asimov remained grateful for Campbell's early friendship and support. He dedicated The Early Asimov (1972) to him, and concluded it by stating that "There is no way at all to express how much he meant to me and how much he did for me except, perhaps, to write this book evoking, once more, those days of

360-537: A century sooner, with vastly less human misery, and with almost no bloodshed ... The only way slavery has ever been ended, anywhere, is by introducing industry ... If a man is a skilled and competent machinist – if the lathes work well under his hands – the industrial management will be forced, to remain in business, to accept that fact, whether the man be black, white, purple, or polka-dotted. According to Michael Moorcock , Campbell suggested that some people preferred slavery. He also, when faced with

432-412: A different tone using the pseudonym Don A. Stuart, which was derived from his wife's maiden name. He published several stories under this pseudonym, including Twilight ( Astounding , November 1934), Night ( Astounding , October 1935), and Who Goes There? ( Astounding , August 1938). Who Goes There? , about a group of Antarctic researchers who discover a crashed alien vessel, formerly inhabited by

504-526: A different tone, he wrote as Don A. Stuart. From 1930 until 1937, Campbell was prolific and successful under both names; he stopped writing fiction shortly after he became editor of Astounding in 1937. In his capacity as an editor, Campbell published some of the very earliest work, and helped shape the careers of virtually every important science-fiction author to debut between 1938 and 1946, including Isaac Asimov , Robert A. Heinlein , Theodore Sturgeon , and Arthur C. Clarke . Shortly after his death in 1971,

576-482: A fascist, the publishers of Analog magazine announced that the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer would immediately be renamed to "The Astounding Award for Best New Writer ". The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Campbell in 1996, in its inaugural class of two deceased and two living persons. Campbell and Astounding shared one of the inaugural Hugo Awards with H. L. Gold and Galaxy at

648-732: A galactic federation) in January 1940, which was published later that year in the September edition of Astounding Science Fiction . Similarly, Arthur C. Clarke 's " Rescue Party " and Fredric Brown 's " Arena " (basis of the Star Trek episode of the same name ) and " Letter to a Phoenix " (all first appeared in Astounding ) also depicts humans favorably above aliens. Campbell was a critic of government regulation of health and safety, excoriating numerous public health initiatives and regulations. Campbell

720-461: A group of new writers for the in the July 1939 issue of Astounding . The July issue contained A. E. van Vogt 's first story, "Black Destroyer", and Asimov's early story, "Trends"; August brought Robert A. Heinlein 's first story, " Life-Line ", and the next month Theodore Sturgeon 's first story appeared. Also in 1939, Campbell started the fantasy magazine Unknown (later Unknown Worlds ). Unknown

792-405: A malevolent shape-changing occupant, was published in Astounding almost a year after Campbell became its editor and it was his last significant piece of fiction, at age 28. It was filmed as The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and again as The Thing (2011). Tremaine hired Campbell to succeed him as the editor of Astounding from its October 1937 issue. Campbell

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864-488: A man, but not like a man") and sometimes asked for stories to match cover paintings he had already bought. Campbell had a strong formative influence on Asimov and eventually became a friend. Asimov credited Campbell with encouraging developments within the field of science fiction field by forgoing conventional plot points and requiring its writers to "understand science and understand people." He also called Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever" and said

936-454: A new Hall of Fame display was unveiled and the class of 2012 was inducted. Nominations are submitted by the public, but the selections are made by "award-winning science fiction authors, artists, editors, publishers, and film professionals." MoPOP restored the original name online during June 2013 and announced five new members, one daily, beginning June 17, 2013. The first four were cited largely or wholly for science fiction works, however

1008-542: A novel due to the black main character, and Joe Haldeman in the dedication of Forever Peace , for rejecting a novel due to a female soldier protagonist. British science-fiction novelist Michael Moorcock , as part of his "Starship Stormtroopers" editorial, said Campbell's Astounding and its writers were "wild-eyed paternalists to a man, fierce anti-socialists " with "[stories] full of crew-cut wisecracking, cigar-chewing, competent guys (like Campbell's image of himself)"; they sold magazines because their "work reflected

1080-453: A project existed and was aimed at developing nuclear weapons" and the demand was dropped. Campbell was also responsible for the grim and controversial ending of Tom Godwin 's short story " The Cold Equations ". Writer Joe Green recounted that Campbell had rejected Godwin's 'Cold Equations' on three different occasions due to disagreements over the fate of the female protagonist. Between December 11, 1957, and June 13, 1958, Campbell hosted

1152-454: A quarter century ago". His final word on Campbell was that "in the last twenty years of his life, he was only a diminishing shadow of what he had once been." Even Heinlein, perhaps Campbell's most important discovery and a "fast friend", tired of him. Poul Anderson wrote that Campbell "had saved and regenerated science fiction", which had become "the product of hack pulpsters " when he took over Astounding . "By his editorial policies and

1224-487: A small robot that it had built, instead of assisting him. This was a direct violation of the First Law of Robotics, which states that "a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm". Apparently, maternal instincts in the robot took precedence over its programming. While such direct disobedience of the First Law is not described in any other robot story by Asimov, he points out that

1296-456: A smashed electric guitar ." Gehry himself had in fact made the comparison: "We started collecting pictures of Stratocasters , bringing in guitar bodies, drawing on those shapes in developing our ideas." The architecture was greeted by Seattle residents with a mixture of acclaim for Gehry and derision for this particular edifice. British-born, Seattle-based writer Jonathan Raban remarked that "Frank Gehry has created some wonderful buildings, like

1368-572: A sophisticated Manhattanite , recounted at some length his "one demented meeting" with Campbell, a man he imagined from afar to be "a combination of Bertrand Russell and Ernest Rutherford ". The first thing Campbell said to him was that Freud was dead, destroyed by the new discovery of Dianetics , which, he predicted, would win L. Ron Hubbard the Nobel Peace Prize . Campbell ordered the bemused Bester to "think back. Clear yourself. Remember! You can remember when your mother tried to abort you with

1440-469: A weekly science fiction radio program called Exploring Tomorrow . Green wrote that Campbell "enjoyed taking the 'devil's advocate' position in almost any area, willing to defend even viewpoints with which he disagreed if that led to a livelier debate". As an example, he wrote: [Campbell] pointed out that the much-maligned 'peculiar institution' of slavery in the American South had in fact provided

1512-408: Is home to numerous exhibits and interactive activity stations as well as sound sculpture and various educational resources: MoPOP was also the location of the first NIME workshop's concert and demo program. This subsequently became the annual International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression , a venue for research on music technology . The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame

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1584-596: The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, but his Seattle effort, the Experience Music Project, is not one of them." New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp described it as "something that crawled out of the sea, rolled over, and died." Forbes magazine called it one of the world's 10 ugliest buildings. Others describe it as a "blob" or call it "The Hemorrhoids ". Despite some critical reviews of

1656-631: The Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine four times. Campbell and Analog won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine yet another four times and Campbell's novella Who Goes There? also won a Hugo Award for Best Novella , bringing his total award count to seventeen. Shortly after Campbell's death, the University of Kansas science fiction program—now the Center for the Study of Science Fiction—established

1728-619: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was befriended by the mathematician Norbert Wiener (who coined the term cybernetics ) – but he failed German. MIT dismissed him in his junior year in 1931. After two years at Duke University , he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1934. Campbell began writing science fiction at age 18 while attending MIT and sold his first stories quickly. From January 1930 to June 1931, Amazing Stories published six of his short stories, one novel, and six letters. Campbell

1800-548: The Watts riots of the mid-sixties, seriously proposed and went on to proposing that there were 'natural' slaves who were unhappy if freed. I sat on a panel with him in 1965, as he pointed out that the worker bee when unable to work dies of misery, that the moujiks when freed went to their masters and begged to be enslaved again, that the ideals of the anti-slavers who fought in the Civil War were merely expressions of self-interest and that

1872-570: The " Dean drive ", a device that supposedly produced thrust in violation of Newton's third law , and the " Hieronymus machine ", which could supposedly amplify psi powers. In 1949, Campbell worked closely with L. Ron Hubbard on the techniques that Hubbard later turned into Dianetics . When Hubbard's therapy failed to find support from the medical community, Campbell published the earliest forms of Dianetics in Astounding . He wrote of L. Ron Hubbard's initial article in Astounding that "[i]t is, I assure you in full and absolute sincerity, one of

1944-430: The "first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely." Campbell encouraged Cleve Cartmill to write " Deadline ", a short story by that appeared during the wartime year of 1944, a year before the detonation of the first atomic bomb . As Ben Bova , Campbell's successor as editor at Analog , wrote, it "described the basic facts of how to build an atomic bomb. Cartmill and Campbell worked together on

2016-680: The 1930s, Campbell became interested in Joseph Rhine's theories about ESP (Rhine had already founded the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University when Campbell was a student there), and over the following years his growing interest in parapsychology would be reflected in the stories he published when he encouraged the writers to include these topics in their tales, leading to the publication of numerous works about telepathy and other " psionic " abilities. This post-war "psi-boom" has been dated by science fiction scholars to roughly

2088-479: The 1953 World Science Fiction Convention . Subsequently, he won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine seven times to 1965. In 2018, he won a retrospective Hugo Award for Best Editor, Short Form (1943). EMP Museum#Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame The Museum of Pop Culture (or MoPOP ) is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington , United States, dedicated to contemporary popular culture . It

2160-588: The Campbell Conference hosted by CSSF. The Hall of Fame stopped inducting fantasy writers after 2004, when it became part of the Science Fiction Museum affiliated with the Museum of Pop Culture, under the name "Science Fiction Hall of Fame". Having inducted 36 writers in nine years, the organization began to recognize non-literary media in 2005. It retained the quota of four new members and thus reduced

2232-510: The Center for the Study of Science Fiction (CSSF) at the University of Kansas (KU). The chairmen were Keith Stokes (1996–2001) and Robin Wayne Bailey (2002–2004). Only writers and editors were eligible for recognition and four were inducted annually, two deceased and two living. Each class of four was announced at Kansas City 's annual science fiction convention , ConQuesT , and inducted at

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2304-449: The Museum of Pop Culture's Founders Award has celebrated artists whose "noteworthy contributions continue to nurture the next generation of risk-takers". The annual benefit gala is key in funding the museum's educational programs, community engagement, and exhibitions. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the gala had to be cancelled and for the first time ever, the event was made free to

2376-678: The Negro 'Civil Rights' groups". On February 10, 1967, Campbell rejected Samuel R. Delany 's Nova a month before it was ultimately published, with a note and phone call to his agent explaining that he did not feel his readership "would be able to relate to a black main character". All these views were reflected in the depiction of aliens in Astounding / Analog . Throughout his editorship, Campbell demanded that depiction of contact between aliens and humans must favor humans. For example, Campbell accepted Isaac Asimov 's proposal for what would become " Homo Sol " (where humans rejected an invitation to join

2448-658: The Spring 1931 Quarterly . During 1934–35 a serial novel, The Mightiest Machine , ran in Astounding Stories , edited by F. Orlin Tremaine , and several stories featuring lead characters Penton and Blake appeared from late 1936 in Thrilling Wonder Stories , edited by Mort Weisinger . The early work for Amazing established Campbell's reputation as a writer of space adventure. In 1934, he began to publish stories with

2520-567: The USA to endure it a few more years than suffer the truly horrendous costs of the Civil War." In a June 1961 editorial called "Civil War Centennial", Campbell argued that slavery had been a dominant form of human relationships for most of history and that the present was unusual in that anti-slavery cultures dominated the planet. He wrote It's my bet that the South would have been integrated by 1910. The job would have been done – and done right – half

2592-567: The University of Kansas science fiction program established the annual John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and also renamed its annual Campbell Conference after him. The World Science Fiction Society established the annual John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, since renamed the Astounding Award for Best New Writer . The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Campbell in 1996, in its inaugural class of two deceased and two living persons. John Campbell

2664-648: The all-ages scene; and "Pop Conference", an annual gathering of academics, critics, musicians, and music buffs. MoPOP, in collaboration with the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), presents the Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival which takes place every winter. Since 2007, the MoPop celebrates recording artists with the Founders Award for their noteworthy contributions. MoPOP

2736-459: The annual John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and also renamed after him its annual Campbell Conference. The World Science Fiction Society established the annual John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. All three memorials became effective in 1973. However, following Jeannette Ng 's August 2019 acceptance speech of the award for Best New Writer at Worldcon 77 , in which she criticized Campbell's politics and called him

2808-504: The annual number of writers. The 2005 and 2006 press releases placed new members in "Literature", "Art", "Film, Television and Media", and "Open" categories, one for each category. In 2007 and 2008, the fourth inductee was placed in one of the three substantial categories. MoPOP de-installed the Science Fiction Museum in March 2011. When the "Icons of Science Fiction" exhibition opened in June 2012,

2880-562: The antitobacco alarmists were completely right..." In 1963, Campbell published an angry editorial about Frances Oldham Kelsey who, while at the FDA, refused to permit thalidomide to be sold in the United States. In other essays, Campbell supported crank medicine, arguing that government regulation was more harmful than beneficial and that regulating quackery prevented the use of many possible beneficial medicines ( e.g. , krebiozen ). In

2952-491: The blacks brought there with a higher standard of living than they had in Africa ;... I suspected, from comments by Asimov, among others – and some Analog editorials I had read – that John held some racist views, at least in regard to blacks. Finally, however, Green agreed with Campbell that "rapidly increasing mechanization after 1850 would have soon rendered slavery obsolete anyhow. It would have been better for

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3024-622: The blacks were 'against' emancipation, which was fundamentally why they were indulging in 'leaderless' riots in the suburbs of Los Angeles. By the 1960s, Campbell began to publish controversial essays supporting segregation and other remarks and writings surrounding slavery and race, which distance him from many in the science fiction community. In 1963, Campbell published an essay supporting segregated schools and arguing that "the Negro race" had failed to "produce super-high-geniuses". In 1965, he continued his defense of segregation and related practices, critiquing "the arrogant defiance of law by many of

3096-456: The connection to lung cancer was "esoteric" and referred to "a barely determinable possible correlation between cigarette smoking and cancer". He said that tobacco's calming effects led to more effective thinking. In a one-page piece about automobile safety in Analog dated May 1967, Campbell wrote of "people suddenly becoming conscious of the fact that cars kill more people than cigarettes do, even if

3168-473: The deep-seated conservatism of the majority of their readers, who saw a Bolshevik menace in every union meeting". He viewed Campbell as turning the magazine into a vessel for right-wing politics , "by the early 1950s ... a crypto-fascist deeply philistine magazine pretending to intellectualism and offering idealistic kids an 'alternative' that was, of course, no alternative at all". SF writer Alfred Bester , an editor of Holiday Magazine and

3240-509: The dome from the film Silent Running . Although the Science Fiction Museum as a permanent collection was de-installed in March 2011, a new exhibit named Icons of Science Fiction opened as a replacement in June 2012. At this time the new Hall of Fame display was unveiled and the class of 2012 inducted. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame was founded in 1996 by the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society and

3312-451: The final one was J.R.R. Tolkien , who was "hailed as the father of modern fantasy literature ". In 2016, the Hall of Fame's 20th anniversary year, the scope was changed again to include not only creators, but creations (from such genres as Cinema , Television and Games), with two examples. A total of 20 additional inductees in both categories were also announced: The class of 2023 brought

3384-483: The help and encouragement he gave his writers (always behind the scenes), he raised both the literary and the intellectual standard anew. Whatever progress has been made stems from that renaissance". Campbell and Astounding shared one of the inaugural Hugo Awards with H. L. Gold and Galaxy at the 1953 World Science Fiction Convention . Subsequently, Campbell and Astounding won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor seven additional times as well as winning

3456-495: The last structural steel beam to be put in place bears the signatures of all construction workers who were on site on the day it was erected. Hoffman Construction Company of Portland, Oregon , was the general contractor, while Magnusson Klemencic Associates of Seattle were the structural engineers for the project. Even before groundbreaking , the Seattle Weekly said the design could refer to "the often quoted comparison to

3528-474: The men he had trained (including me) in doing so, but felt it was his duty to stir up the minds of his readers and force curiosity right out to the border lines. He began a series of editorials ... in which he championed a social point of view that could sometimes be described as far right (he expressed sympathy for George Wallace in the 1968 national election, for instance). There was bitter opposition to this from many (including me – I could hardly ever read

3600-536: The mid-1950s to the early 1960s, and continues to influence many popular culture tropes and motifs. Campbell rejected the Shaver Mystery in which the author claimed to have had a personal experience with a sinister ancient civilization that harbored fantastic technology in caverns under the earth. His increasing beliefs in pseudoscience would eventually start to isolate and alienate him from some of his writers, including Asimov. He wrote favorably about such things as

3672-492: The most important articles ever published." Campbell continued to promote Hubbard's theories until 1952, when the pair split acrimoniously over the direction of the movement. Asimov wrote: "A number of writers wrote pseudoscientific stuff to ensure sales to Campbell, but the best writers retreated, I among them. ..." Elsewhere Asimov went on to further explain Campbell championed far-out ideas ... He pained very many of

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3744-481: The museum has organized numerous exhibitions focused more specifically on popular culture, such as Sound and Vision: Artists Tell Their Stories , which opened February 28, 2007. This brought together both music and science fiction in a single exhibit, and drew on the museum's extensive collection of oral history recordings. The museum's recent exhibitions have ranged from horror cinema , video games, and black leather jackets to fantasy film and literature. Since 2007,

3816-594: The number of members to 109, which includes the 20 additional inductees added in 2016. In November 2016, the museum changed its name from the Experience Music Project Museum to the Museum of Pop Culture, or MoPOP for short. MoPOP is located on the campus of Seattle Center , adjacent to the Space Needle and the Seattle Center Monorail , which runs through the building. The structure itself

3888-409: The pulp mire and start writing intelligently, for adults". After 1950, new magazines such as Galaxy Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction moved in different directions and developed talented new writers who were not directly influenced by him. Campbell often suggested story ideas to writers (including "Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man, or better than

3960-503: The story is told by Donovan, who may be an unreliable narrator . Asimov admits that "I was being funny at the expense of my robots". In The Complete Robot , he also points out that this story is intended as a parody and is not to be taken seriously. This article about a science fiction short story (or stories) published in the 1950s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . John W. Campbell John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971)

4032-485: The story, drawing their scientific information from papers published in the technical journals before the war. To them, the mechanics of constructing a uranium-fission bomb seemed perfectly obvious." The FBI descended on Campbell's office after the story appeared in print and demanded that the issue be removed from the newsstands. Campbell convinced them that by removing the magazine "the FBI would be advertising to everyone that such

4104-550: The structure, the building has been called "a fitting backdrop for the world's largest collection of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia ." The building's exterior, which features a fusion of textures and colors including gold, silver, deep red, blue and a "shimmering purple haze," has been declared "an apt representation of the American rock experience." The museum has had mixed financial success. In an effort to raise more funds, museum organizers used Allen's extensive art collection to create

4176-501: Was a heavy smoker throughout his life and was seldom seen without his customary cigarette holder. In the Analog of September 1964, nine months after the Surgeon General 's first major warning about the dangers of cigarette smoking had been issued (January 11, 1964) Campbell ran an editorial, "A Counterblaste to Tobacco" that took its title from the anti-smoking book of the same name by King James I of England . In it, he stated that

4248-439: Was adapted as the films The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011). Campbell began writing science fiction at age 18 while attending MIT . He published six short stories, one novel, and eight letters in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories from 1930 to 1931. This work established Campbell's reputation as a writer of space adventure. When in 1934 he began to write stories with

4320-502: Was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact ) from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction . Campbell wrote super-science space opera under his own name and stories under his primary pseudonym, Don A. Stuart. Campbell also used the pen names Karl Van Kampen and Arthur McCann. His novella Who Goes There?

4392-511: Was an atheist. Editor T. O'Conor Sloane lost Campbell's first manuscript that he accepted for Amazing Stories , entitled "Invaders of the Infinite". "When the Atoms Failed" appeared in January 1930, followed by five more during 1930. Three were part of a space opera series featuring the characters Arcot, Morey, and Wade. A complete novel in the series, Islands of Space , was the cover story in

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4464-620: Was born in Newark, New Jersey , in 1910. His father, John Wood Campbell Sr., was an electrical engineer. His mother, Dorothy (née Strahern) had an identical twin who visited them often. John was unable to tell them apart and said he was frequently rebuffed by the person he took to be his mother. Campbell attended the Blair Academy , a boarding school in rural Warren County , New Jersey, but did not graduate because of lack of credits for French and trigonometry . He also attended, without graduating,

4536-779: Was canceled after four years due to wartime paper shortages. Campbell died in 1971 at the age of 61 in Mountainside, New Jersey . At the time of his sudden death after 34 years at the helm of Analog, Campbell's personality and editorial demands had alienated some of his writers to the point that they no longer submitted works to him. One of his writers, Theodore Sturgeon, opted to publish most of his works after 1950 and only submitted one story with Astounding during that same timeframe. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction wrote: "More than any other individual, he helped to shape modern sf", and Darrell Schweitzer credits him with having "decreed that SF writers should pull themselves up out of

4608-504: Was designed by Frank Gehry and resembles many of his firm's other works in its sheet-metal construction, such as Guggenheim Museum Bilbao , Walt Disney Concert Hall , and Gehry Tower . Much of the building material is exposed in the building's interior. The building contains 140,000 square feet (13,000 m ), with a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m ) footprint . The name of the museum's central Sky Church pays homage to Jimi Hendrix . A concert venue capable of holding up to 800 guests,

4680-691: Was editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact ) from late 1937 until his death. He stopped writing fiction after he became the editor of Astounding . Between December 11, 1957, and June 13, 1958, he hosted a weekly science fiction radio program called Exploring Tomorrow . The scripts were written by authors such as Gordon R. Dickson and Robert Silverberg . Campbell and Doña Stewart married in 1931. They divorced in 1949, and he married Margaret (Peg) Winter in 1950. He spent most of his life in New Jersey and died of heart failure at his home in Mountainside, New Jersey . He

4752-508: Was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as the Experience Music Project. Since then MoPOP has organized dozens of exhibits , 17 of which have toured across the U.S. and internationally. The museum—formerly known as Experience Music Project , Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (or EMP|SFM), and later EMP Museum until November 2016—has initiated many public programs including "Sound Off!", an annual 21-and-under battle-of-the-bands that supports

4824-536: Was founded by Paul Allen and his sister Jody Patton , and opened to the public on June 18, 2004. It incorporated the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame which had been established in 1996. The museum was divided into several galleries with themes such as "Homeworld", "Fantastic Voyages", "Brave New Worlds", and "Them!", each displaying related memorabilia (movie props, first editions, costumes, and models) in large display cases, posters, and interactive displays. It

4896-413: Was not given full authority for Astounding until May 1938, but had been responsible for buying stories earlier. He began to make changes almost immediately, instigating a "mutant" label for unusual stories, and in March 1938, changing the title from Astounding Stories to Astounding Science-Fiction . Lester del Rey 's first story in March 1938 was an early find for Campbell. In 1939, he published

4968-491: Was published by Fantastic Universe in October 1956. The story is very short, only three pages in length, and takes the form of Mike Donovan 's account of an incident that occurred on Titan , one of Saturn 's moons. He tells of a malfunctioning robot named Emma that escaped from the base and was later encountered by Donovan while he was lost during a storm. While Donovan's life was in danger, Emma chose to protect its offspring,

5040-672: Was said about the museum that "From robots to jet packs to space suits and ray guns, it's all here." Members of the museum's advisory board included Steven Spielberg , Ray Bradbury , James Cameron , and George Lucas . Among its collection of artifacts were Captain Kirk 's command chair from Star Trek , the B9 robot from Lost in Space , the Death Star model from Star Wars , the T-800 Terminator and

5112-517: Was so unpleasant to me that I was unwilling to face it. Campbell talked a good deal more than he listened, and he liked to say outrageous things." British novelist and critic Kingsley Amis dismissed Campbell brusquely: "I might just add as a sociological note that the editor of Astounding, himself a deviant figure of marked ferocity, seems to think he has invented a psi machine." Several science-fiction novelists have criticized Campbell as prejudiced – Samuel R. Delany for Campbell's rejection of

5184-415: Was the greatest editor SF has seen or is likely to see, and is in fact one of the major editors in all English-language literature in the middle years of the twentieth century. All about you is the heritage of what he built". Asimov said that Campbell was "talkative, opinionated, quicksilver-minded, overbearing. Talking to him meant listening to a monologue..." Knight agreed: "Campbell's lecture-room manner

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