James Nicoll Reviews

A Complete Unknown

From Unknown Worlds

Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.

John W. Campbell, Jr.’s 1948 From Unknown Worlds is a stand-alone fantasy anthology “for adults” (according to the tag line), drawing on the short-lived magazine, Unknown.

What was Unknown?

The evil that men do lives after them

Collected Editorials from Analog

By John W. Campbell, Jr.

11 Dec, 2014

**Miscellaneous Reviews**

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Reading this collection won’t make your life better; on Facebook I compared it to eating a whole box of bon-bons, if said bon-bons were not in fact candy but deceptively-shaped pieces of dog-shit. What it will do is give you a pretty good idea what sort of person John W. Campbell, Jr. was — terrible — and if you’re an SF fan that matters because Mr. Campbell, he was influential within the world of science fiction. Very influential.