John W. Campbell is born in Newark, NJ in 1910. The writer and editor is known for his role is shaping 20th Century science fiction as a contributor to Amazing Stories and editor of Astounding Science Fiction. His writing includes the short story Who Goes There?, which was the basis for The Thing movies. Yet, his later racist views and embrace of pseudo-science alienated him from the community of writers he’d helped decades earlier including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein.
This Day in Halloween: Controversial writer and editor John W. Campbell is born in Newark, NJ in 1910.