TYPED LETTER, SIGNED TLS . 2 pages on 2 sheets, dated 13 June 1968, to Joel Frieman, on Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact letterhead
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A fine letter entirely about the Street and Smith pulp UNKNOWN later UNKNOWN WORLDS , a magazine edited by Campbell devoted entirely to fantasy. The magazine was published simultaneously with ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-FICTION, from the spring of 1939 to the fall of 1943. The inception of UNKNOWN was, simply, that there were stories that were damn good stories -- which I couldn't print in ASTOUNDING, because they weren't science-fiction, and ASTOUNDING's readers invariably protested angrily if I ran
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