John W. Campbell and his Los Alamos Subscribers

[Andy_L]

@Andy_L

Meant to mention - as I recall, Asimov doesn’t say anything about subscribers; he talks about the distribution of magazines to newstands (etc.). If I recall correctly, he said that before the war, Astounding would have the largest number of orders from NYC, the second highest from Boston, and so on, down the list of metropolitan markets, but during the war, NYC and Boston were 2nd and third to Oak Ridge. More plausible than “change of address” notices, perhaps.

The SF Oral History Association has the Asimov talk available at Michigan University MSU.doc

@Exapno_Mapcase

“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.”

Now replace space with “research” and big with “hard.”

Agreed.