Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, September 1960

John Wood Campbell Jr. was an American science fiction writer and editor. As editor of Astounding Science Fiction from late 1937 until his death, he is generally credited with shaping the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Isaac Asimov called Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever, and for the first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely." As a writer, Campbell published super-science space opera under his own name and moody stories under his primary and...

Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of...

Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. Garrett is best known for the Lord Darcy books, the novel Too Many Magicians and two short story collections. He was also an inveterate punster (defining a pun as "the odor given off by a decaying mind"), he was a favorite guest at science fiction convention. Source: wikipedia

H. R. Van Dongen is recognized for his contributions to science fiction. His work appeared in the September 1960 issue of the influential Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction magazine.

H. B. Fyfe is the author behind the Worlds of If Super Pack #3, a collection that offers a look into imaginative science fiction and fantasy. If you enjoy stories that explore different possibilities, Fyfe's work is definitely worth checking out.