3.

Science-fiction writer and critic Damon Knight commented in his book In Search of Wonder: "In
the pantheon of magazine science fiction there is no more complex and puzzling figure than
that of John Campbell, and certainly none odder." Knight also wrote a four-stanza ditty about
some of Campbell's new interests. The first stanza reads:

Oh, the Dean Machine, the Dean Machine,

You put it right in a submarine,
And it flies so high that it cannot be seen –
The wonderful, wonderful Dean Machine!

4. In 1957, novelist and critic James Blish tallied: "From the professional writer's point of view, the
primary interest in Astounding Science Fiction continues to center on the editor's
preoccupation with extrasensory powers and perceptions ('psi') as a springboard for stories ...
113 pages of the total editorial content of the January and February 1957 issues of this
magazine are devoted to psi, and 172 to non-psi material ... By including the first part of a
serial that later becomes a novel about psi the total for these first two issues of 1957 is 145
pages of psi text, and 140 pages of non-psi."[48]

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