On 13 Dec 2003, at 1:42 am, Steve Sloan II wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
> I read somewhere that Asimov had a humans-only universe to > sidestep that editorial requirement. Then wrote _The Gods > Themselves_ (with aliens) after JWC's death.
That's also what I remember reading. In fact, it was this very subject that first got me on Brin-L. I read a comment on Hector's web site wondering why Asimov used an all-human Galaxy, and I emailed him that answer. He invited me onto his new David Brin list, and the rest is history. :-)
And Campbell's strict, and increasingly cranky, editorial views led hard sf into a ghetto by the late 60's. Meanwhile under Horace Gold's editorship the satirical and left-wing Galaxy published Frederik Pohl, Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Fritz Leiber, Robert Sheckley...
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