author
Jr. (John Wood) John W. Campbell
1910–1971
A towering figure in science fiction’s formative years, he helped shape the genre both as a writer and as the long-serving editor of Astounding Science Fiction. His fiction ranged from hard-driving early space opera to the more reflective stories he published as Don A. Stuart.
8 Audiobooks
The Black Star Passes
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The Ultimate Weapon
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Islands of Space
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Invaders from the Infinite
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The Last Evolution
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When the atoms failed
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The voice of the void
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The metal horde
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About the author
Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1910, John W. Campbell Jr. became one of the most influential people in 20th-century science fiction. He studied physics at Duke University and began publishing fiction while still young, quickly building a reputation for energetic, idea-heavy stories.
Campbell first made his mark as a writer of large-scale "super-science" adventures under his own name. Later, using the pseudonym Don A. Stuart, he wrote quieter, moodier stories such as Who Goes There?, the novella that inspired several film adaptations. That shift showed how wide his range could be.
He is best remembered as the editor of Astounding Science Fiction—later Analog Science Fiction and Fact—from the late 1930s until his death in 1971. In that role, he helped define what readers now think of as the Golden Age of science fiction, encouraging stories that treated scientific ideas seriously and pushing many major writers toward some of their best-known work.