Astounding Science Fact
While John W Campbell's Astounding is best known for its fiction,
Campbell himself liked to stress that it was a magazine of science fiction AND
science fact. This page lists the major non-fiction contents of all issues of the
magazine from July 1939 to September 1960, under two headings: Campbell's own
editorials, and other factual articles
arranged alphabetically by author.
Editorials by John W Campbell
- Addenda , July 1939
- We're Not All Human , September 1941
- Science Fiction and War , March 1942
- Those Giant Tubes... , November 1943
- Not Quite Rockets , April 1944
- Super-Conservative , April 1944
- Beachhead for Science , May 1944
- The Difference , June 1944
- There Ain't No Sich Animile! , July 1944
- Problem in Eight Dimensions , August 1944
- Galaxies of Stars , September 1944
- Remarkably Absent , September 1944
- Sledge Hammer! , October 1944
- CRT , November 1944
- Spaceship's View , December 1944
- Fragile! Glass! , February 1945
- Halt! , July 1945
- The Road to Space , November 1945
- Atoms Won't Do Everything , December 1945
- - But Are We? , January 1946
- The Third Great Advance , May 1946
- Visitor from Beyond , July 1946
- Sensory Equipment , August 1946
- Spanish Atoms , September 1946
- The Lead Curtain , October 1946
- Atomic Engines , November 1946
- Bikini A and B , December 1946
- Our Monthly Contest , December 1946
- Atomic Weapons - Submicroscopic Scale, January 1947
- The Atomic Power Plant , February 1947
- Indifference - Cosmic Scale , August 1947
- Flying Somethings , October 1947
- Atomic Energy For Peace , November 1947
- High Speed Pile , January 1948
- Megopolis , February 1948
- Stunted Seedling , April 1948
- Atomic Power Pile , June 1948
- Educational Problem , July 1948
- The Atomic Secret , August 1948
- Undesirable Invention , September 1948
- Elder Brother Mars , October 1948
- No Copying Allowed , November 1948
- Brookhaven Laboratories , December 1948
- Gleep and Bepo , January 1949
- Radiation and Mutations , February 1949
- Detection Means Existence , March 1949
- Oh King, Live Forever... , April 1949
- Reactor Research , May 1949
- Open to Question , June 1949
- Brookhaven Sketches , July 1949
- Parboiled Pilots , August 1949
- Narrow Limits , September 1949
- Scienc-Fiction Prophecy , November 1949
- Digital Computer , December 1949
- Concerning Dianetics , May 1950
- Intellectual Hobson-Jobsonism , July 1950
- Credit Where Due , September 1950
- Choice , November 1950
- Tools , January 1951
- Nonsecret , February 1951
- Elementary, My Dear Watson! , March 1951
- Causus Belli , April 1951
- Conservatism , May 1951
- Improbable Atmosphere , June 1951
- Evolution , July 1951
- Reality , August 1951
- Note for Chemists , September 1951
- Evaluation of Dianetics , October 1951
- Megotiation , November 1951
- Primitive Language , December 1951
- Proposed History , January 1952
- How Do YOU Think? , February 1952
- Social Pattern , March 1952
- Military Weapon , April 1952
- Aristotelian Thinking , May 1952
- Brookhaven Action , May 1952
- Uncertainty Principle , June 1952
- The Ultimate Weapon , July 1952
- In All Probability... , August 1952
- The Laws of Speculation , September 1952
- The Perfect Machine , October 1952
- Nonlinear Phenomenon , November 1952
- Question... , December 1952
- Postulate an Alien Who-- , January 1953
- Redundance , February 1953
- Unsane Behavior , March 1953
- The Fallacy of Null-A , April 1953
- Thinking Machine , May 1953
- The Villians of the Piece , June 1953
- Our Catalogue Number... , July 1953
- You Know What I Mean... , August 1953
- Emotional Senses , September 1953
- Unwise Knowledge , October 1953
- Window to Tomorrow , November 1953
- The Scientist , December 1953
- Hell on Earth , January 1954
- Danger: Men at Work , February 1954
- Limitation On Logic , March 1954
- Information on Age , April 1954
- Product of Higher Science , May 1954
- Relatively Absolute , July 1954
- "My Willie Can Do Anything" , August 1954
- Breakthrough , September 1954
- Brain-Washing , October 1954
- Prediction , November 1954
- As A General Rule... , December 1954
- Meaning Wanted , January 1955
- Second-Order Logic? , February 1955
- Technical Unemployment , March 1955
- Point of Diminishing Returns , April 1955
- The Demeaned Viewpoint , May 1955
- The Liar , June 1955
- The Fanatic , July 1955
- Philosophy Doesn't Pay , August 1955
- Game Theory , September 1955
- Subtle Distinction , October 1955
- A Word for It , November 1955
- Necessary Isn't Sufficient , December 1955
- Nothing Fails Like Success , January 1956
- The Science of Psionics , February 1956
- Mutation and Cultures , March 1956
- The Group & the Individual , April 1956
- The Scientific Method , May 1956
- Psionic Machine - Type One , June 1956
- The Problem of Psionics , June 1956
- Thought Without Words , July 1956
- The Value of Panic , August 1956
- I Try to Have An Open Mind , September 1956
- Coexistence , October 1956
- The Invisible River , November 1956
- Mathematics of Psychology , December 1956
- The One-Eyed Logician , January 1957
- Limitation of Method , February 1957
- Unprovable Speculation , February 1957
- Demonstration , March 1957
- The False Immortals , April 1957
- But... I Measured It! , May 1957
- Addendum on the Symbolic Psionic Machine, June 1957
- Evolution Without Mutations , June 1957
- Intelligence Amplification , July 1957
- That Shortage of Scientists , August 1957
- Learning Patterns , September 1957
- A Matter of Degree , October 1957
- Situation Normal: Explosive , November 1957
- Demonstration, part 1 of 3 , December 1957
- Project Me Too! , January 1958
- Demonstration, part 2 of 3 , February 1958
- The Scientific Method , March 1958
- Demonstration, part 3 of 3 , April 1958
- Research Is Antisocial , May 1958
- Concerning "Science Fans" , June 1958
- Society for Amateurs , July 1958
- Hyperdemocracy , August 1958
- I Know What You Say... , September 1958
- ...But Divided We Fall! , October 1958
- Overcompensation , November 1958
- Political Science , December 1958
- We MUST Study Psi , January 1959
- Non-Escape Literature , February 1959
- The Superman , March 1959
- Holes , April 1959
- Mr. Newton's Wonderful Discovery, May 1959
- Science is A Menace , June 1959
- We Need A Heuristic... , July 1959
- Subjective Color , August 1959
- What Do You Mean... Human? , September 1959
- Frontier News , October 1959
- How to Lose a War , November 1959
- The Ultrafeeble Interactions , December 1959
- You Can't Say I Did It! , January 1960
- Color Vision...The Land Experiments, February 1960
- The Word and the Truth , February 1960
- The One-Eyed Guide , March 1960
- Space for Industry , April 1960
- You Must Agree With Me... , May 1960
- The Size of the Solar System , June 1960
- The Space-Drive Problem , June 1960
- Unimaginable Reasons , July 1960
- People Need Help , August 1960
- Report on the Dean Drive , September 1960
Other articles
- John W. Abrams: White Dwarf Stars, December 1947
- Corbin Allardice &
Edward R. Trapnell: First Atomic Pile, December 1951
- Poul Anderson: Those Hairy Ancestors, November 1954
- Poul Anderson: The Troublesome Dimensions, November 1956
- David A. Anderton: Can V-2 Be Improved?, September 1947
- John E. Arnold: Space, Time and Education, May 1953
- Isaac Asimov: The Micropsychiatric Applications of Thiotimoline, December 1953
- Isaac Asimov: Hemoglobin And the Universe, February 1955
- Isaac Asimov: The Sound of Panting, June 1955
- Isaac Asimov: Victory on Paper, September 1955
- Isaac Asimov: The Abnormality of Being Normal, May 1956
- Isaac Asimov: Pate de Foie Gras, September 1956
- Isaac Asimov: Names! Names! Names!, December 1956
- Isaac Asimov: Planets Have An Air About Them, March 1957
- Isaac Asimov: The Unblind Workings of Chance, April 1957
- Isaac Asimov: The Trapping of the Sun, May 1957
- Isaac Asimov: The Sea Urchin and We, July 1957
- Isaac Asimov: Overflowing the Periodic Table, October 1957
- Isaac Asimov: The Whenabouts of Radioactivity, December 1957
- Isaac Asimov: Our Lonely Planet, November 1958
- Isaac Asimov: The Unartificial Elements, July 1959
- Isaac Asimov: Microdesign for Living, March 1960
- Isaac Asimov: The March of the Phyla, May 1960
- Isaac Asimov: Beyond the Phyla, July 1960
- Isaac Asimov: The Matter of Space, September 1960
- Edmund C. Berkeley: As Quick as a Thought, February 1951
- Edmund C. Berkeley: Machine "Intelligence", January 1952
- Henry Bott: High Vacua, November 1941
- William C. Boyd: Living Fossils in Print, April 1958
- William C. Boyd: Blood From Turnips...Almost!, October 1959
- Lawrence Braymer: Wanted: a Tube, November 1945
- Alastair Cameron: The Evolution of the Stars, September 1958
- Alastair Cameron: The Formation of the Elements, August 1960
- Hal Clement: Whirligig World, June 1953
- Mark Clifton: The Dread Tomato Addiction, February 1958
- Roy L. Clough, Jr.: It Didn't Come From Mars, November 1954
- Les Collins: How to Write Science Faction, December 1959
- J. J. Coupling: Universes to Order, February 1944
- J. J. Coupling: Little Enough, April 1945
- J. J. Coupling: It Isn't So Easy, May 1945
- J. J. Coupling: Portrait of a Voice, July 1946
- J. J. Coupling: Activity, November 1946
- J. J. Coupling: Less Light, Please, March 1947
- J. J. Coupling: News from Our Sun, June 1947
- J. J. Coupling: Broad Band, August 1947
- J. J. Coupling: Stuck In The Mud, November 1947
- J. J. Coupling: Maggie, February 1948
- J. J. Coupling: The Little Blue Cells, February 1949
- J. J. Coupling: Chance Remarks, October 1949
- J. J. Coupling: Ergodic Prediction, February 1950
- J. J. Coupling: How To Build a Thinking Machine, August 1950
- J. J. Coupling: Science for Art's Sake, November 1950
- J. J. Coupling: Don't Write: Telegraph, March 1952
- J. J. Coupling: Transistors, June 1952
- J. J. Coupling: Space Heater, February 1954
- J. J. Coupling: On Atomic Jets, January 1955
- Arthur J. Cox: Linguistics and Time, August 1950
- Arthur J. Cox: Varieties of Culture, December 1950
- G. S. Curry: What's Wrong in the Patent System, October 1947
- L. Sprague de Camp: There Ain't No Such!, part 1 of 2, November 1939
- L. Sprague de Camp: There Ain't No Such!, part 2 of 2, December 1939
- L. Sprague de Camp: The Science of Whithering, part 1 of 2, July 1940
- L. Sprague de Camp: The Science of Whithering, part 2 of 2, August 1940
- L. Sprague de Camp: Justinian Jugg's Patent, December 1940
- L. Sprague de Camp: The Sea King's Armored Division, part 1 of 2, September 1941
- L. Sprague de Camp: The Sea King's Armored Division, part 2 of 2, October 1941
- L. Sprague de Camp: The Long-Tailed Huns, part 1 of 2, January 1942
- L. Sprague de Camp: The Long-Tailed Huns, part 2 of 2, February 1942
- L. Sprague de Camp: Get Out and Get Under, part 1 of 2, December 1942
- L. Sprague de Camp: Get Out and Get Under, part 2 of 2, January 1943
- L. Sprague de Camp: The Space Suit, March 1948
- L. Sprague de Camp: The Great Floods, October 1949
- L. Sprague de Camp: Why Do They Do It?, September 1950
- L. Sprague de Camp: The Care and Feeding of Mad Scientists, July 1951
- L. Sprague de Camp: Orthodoxy in Science, May 1954
- W. B. DeGraeff: Congress Is To Busy, September 1946
- Arthur Dugan: The Case of the Missing Octane, March 1949
- Arthur Dugan: Bacterial Time Bomb, December 1949
- V. A. Eulach: Those Impossible Autotrophic Men, October 1956
- Roscoe Fleming: Clouds, April 1952
- Frank G. Foote: Solid Plutonium Headache, January 1960
- David Fox: The Tiniest Time Traveler, December 1952
- Norman R. Goldsmith: Starting Point, January 1941
- Gotthard Gunther: The Logical Parallax, November 1953
- Gotthard Gunther: Achilles And the Tortoise, part 1 of 3, July 1954
- Gotthard Gunther: Achilles And the Tortoise, part 2 of 3, August 1954
- Gotthard Gunther: Achilles And the Tortoise, part 3 of 3, September 1954
- Jack Hatcher: Transmutation, 1939, January 1940
- Jack Hatcher: Fuel for the Future, March 1940
- Robert A. Heinlein: Shooting "Destination Moon", July 1950
- J. G. Hocking: Topology, March 1954
- Charles F. Hockett: How to Learn Martian, May 1955
- L. Ron Hubbard: Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science, May 1950
- L. Ron Hubbard: The Mayan Elephants, June 1950
- L. Ron Hubbard: The Analytical Mind, October 1950
- L. Ron Hubbard: Dianometry, January 1951
- J. O. Hutton: Tornadoes and Atom Blasts, May 1954
- Sylvia Jacobs: Hold That Helium!, March 1955
- Malcolm Jameson: Space War Tactics, November 1939
- Malcolm Jameson: Military Explosives, January 1942
- Malcolm Jameson: Dispersion, March 1942
- Malcolm Jameson: Vulcan: Ice Ring, November 1942
- Malcolm Jameson: God's Footstool, February 1943
- Malcolm Jameson: Tidal Waves, October 1943
- Malcolm Jameson: Keep 'Em Under, November 1943
- Kenneth Johns: Space for Madness, August 1959
- Raymond F. Jones: Pigeon Sense, March 1945
- Edwin N. Kaufman: Notes on Nuclear Radiation, March 1951
- Crispin Kim-Bradley: Symbolic Logic and Metamathemetics, February 1952
- Crispin Kim-Bradley: The Paradoxes, June 1954
- Donald Kingsbury: The Right to Breed, April 1955
- Carrol L. Klotzbach: Hydroponics, January 1952
- Paul M. Leavy, Jr.: Bring Back Those Mustard Plants!, August 1957
- Murray Leinster: To Build A Robot Brain, April 1954
- Murray Leinster: Labor of Love, January 1956
- Willy Ley: Geography for Time Travelers, July 1939
- Willy Ley: Space War, August 1939
- Willy Ley: Earth's Second Moon, October 1939
- Willy Ley: Botanical Invasion, February 1940
- Willy Ley: The Search for Zero, part 1 of 1, October 1940
- Willy Ley: The Search for Zero, part 2 of 2, November 1940
- Willy Ley: Prelude to Engineering, August 1941
- Willy Ley: Sergeant Terry Bull's Terrible Weapons, December 1941
- Willy Ley: The Fatal Coloration, April 1942
- Willy Ley: The Birth of a Superstition, May 1942
- Willy Ley: Bombing Is a Fine Art, August 1942
- Willy Ley: Death Under the Sea, September 1942
- Willy Ley: The Paris Gun, October 1942
- Willy Ley: Tyrannosaurus Was No Killer, April 1943
- Willy Ley: The Old Ones, May 1943
- Willy Ley: Sea of Mystery, June 1943
- Willy Ley: The End of the Rocket Society, part 1 of 2, August 1943
- Willy Ley: The End of the Rocket Society, part 2 of 2, September 1943
- Willy Ley: Extraterrestrial Bacteria, December 1943
- Willy Ley: A Matter Of Taste, January 1944
- Willy Ley: The Plurality of Worlds, February 1944
- Willy Ley: Rocket Artillery, April 1944
- Willy Ley: They Were Dead -, June 1944
- Willy Ley: Torpedo!, July 1944
- Willy Ley: Wooden Ships of the Air, October 1944
- Willy Ley: Moon Mysteries, December 1944
- Willy Ley: V-2 - Rocket Cargo Ship, May 1945
- Willy Ley: The Secret Giant, July 1945
- Willy Ley: ...Giants in Those Days, November 1945
- Willy Ley: Improving Upon V-2, January 1947
- Willy Ley: Pseudoscience in Naziland, May 1947
- Willy Ley: Push Your Pushbutton Warfare, September 1947
- Willy Ley: The Other End of the Trajectory, July 1948
- Willy Ley: The "Brickwall" in the Sky, November 1948
- Willy Ley: Science and "Truth", December 1949
- Willy Ley: Our Turbulent Atmosphere, part 1 of 2, March 1950
- Willy Ley: Our Turbulent Atmosphere, part 2 of 2, April 1950
- Willy Ley: Meteorite Craters, September 1951
- Willy Ley: Comets, July 1952
- Willy Ley: Fireworks, October 1952
- E. L. Locke: The Electrical Robot Brain, June 1948
- E. L. Locke: New Diaelectrics, August 1948
- E. L. Locke: A New Natural Law, November 1948
- E. L. Locke: Electronics - New Style, December 1948
- E. L. Locke: Modern Calcualtors, January 1949
- E. L. Locke: Cybernetics, September 1949
- E. L. Locke: Piezoelectricity, April 1950
- Leonard Lockhard: Improbable Profession, September 1952
- Leonard Lockhard: That Professional Look, January 1954
- Leonard Lockhard: The Curious Profession, April 1956
- Leonard Lockhard: The Professional Touch, February 1959
- Frank Belknap Long: It's a Tough Life, November 1942
- Harold A. Lower: Hunting Big Game, October 1939
- Roy Malcolm: Is Bode's Law a Coincidence?, July 1955
- Arthur McCann: Atomic Ringmaster, March 1940
- Arthur McCann: Hot Filament, May 1940
- Arthur McCann: Shhhhh! Don't Mention It!, August 1940
- Arthur McCann: Dead--and Embalmed, January 1941
- Arthur McCann: Gypped!, February 1941
- Arthur McCann: Master Chemist, December 1943
- Lorne MacLaughlan: Noise from Outside, April 1947
- Lorne MacLaughlan: Servomechanisms, January 1948
- Lorne MacLaughlan: Electrical Mathematicians, May 1949
- Gene Mitchell: Refraction and Lenses, August 1944
- Howard L. Myers: Birthplace for Planets, February 1952
- William Olcott: These Rare Earths, October 1951
- James W. Owen: Fiction? Reality!, September 1959
- George Pal: Filming "War of the Worlds", October 1953
- Arthur C. Parlett: 9F19 (Fluorine), April 1949
- Arthur C. Parlett: Maxwell's Demon and Monsieur Ranque, January 1950
- Arthur C. Parlett: This Is Hot!, July 1950
- Richard C. Pinkerton: Scanning and Form, December 1954
- John H. Pomeroy: Progress Report, September 1949
- R. S. Richardson: The Other Side of Astronomy, September 1939
- R. S. Richardson: Luna Observatory No. 1, February 1940
- R. S. Richardson: Universes for Lenses, September 1940
- R. S. Richardson: Wanted: Suggestions, December 1940
- R. S. Richardson: Space Has a Spectrum, March 1941
- R. S. Richardson: Trepidation, April 1941
- R. S. Richardson: Vermin of the Sky, July 1941
- R. S. Richardson: Inside Out Matter, December 1941
- R. S. Richardson: No Handicap Allowed, June 1942
- R. S. Richardson: Stars Also Have Rings, July 1942
- R. S. Richardson: Late-Model Stars, October 1942
- R. S. Richardson: Space Fix, part 1 of 2, March 1943
- R. S. Richardson: Space Fix, part 2 of 2, April 1943
- R. S. Richardson: The World of 61 Cygni C, July 1943
- R. S. Richardson: Turn On the Moon--Make It Hotter!, November 1943
- R. S. Richardson: Postwar Plan For Mars, January 1944
- R. S. Richardson: Headstones For Astronomers, July 1944
- R. S. Richardson: Extra-Solar Planets, September 1944
- R. S. Richardson: Time for a Universe, November 1944
- R. S. Richardson: The Helpful Pleiades, February 1945
- R. S. Richardson: Prediction - Past Tense, June 1945
- R. S. Richardson: Advance in the Red, August 1945
- R. S. Richardson: Prominences, October 1945
- R. S. Richardson: Second Approximation, September 1946
- R. S. Richardson: Calendar for Mars, August 1947
- R. S. Richardson: Man On Mira, April 1948
- R. S. Richardson: Paper Planets, September 1948
- R. S. Richardson: The Time of Your Life, November 1949
- R. S. Richardson: Wanted - Help, April 1951
- R. S. Richardson: Today It's Turbulence, August 1951
- R. S. Richardson: Making Worlds Collide, November 1951
- R. S. Richardson: Earth's Ghostly Companion in Space, January 1953
- R. S. Richardson: The Mystery of the Blue Mist of Mars, December 1953
- R. S. Richardson: Jove Intervenes, October 1954
- R. S. Richardson: New Moons, November 1955
- R. S. Richardson: Island in the Sky, July 1956
- R. S. Richardson: Every Astronomer Has His Horror Story, August 1958
- R. S. Richardson: Mars: A Summing Up, March 1960
- R. S. Richardson: Needed: One Aphrodite Project, August 1960
- Milton A. Rothman: Probabilities and Punctures, April 1951
- Milton A. Rothman: The Antiproton Is Found, January 1957
- Milton A. Rothman: Fusion for Power, September 1957
- C. Rudmore: The Story of Modulation, July 1947
- C. Rudmore: Talking on Pulses, July 1949
- C. Rudmore: Coded Speech, August 1949
- Eric Frank Russell: And Still It Moves, June 1957
- Russell Saunders: Clipper Ships of Space, May 1951
- G. R. Shipman: How to Talk to A Martian, October 1953
- Stanley R. Short: The Coronaviser, September 1940
- Stanley R. Short: The Klystron, February 1941
- Theodore S. Simpson: Destruction From Atomic Weapons, September 1953
- George O. Smith: The Vanishing Yankee, March 1944
- George O. Smith: The Elusive Microvolt, September 1945
- George O. Smith: Hearing Aid, January 1946
- George O. Smith: Unapproachable, April 1946
- George O. Smith: Obey That Impulse!, July 1947
- Carter Sprague: The Rocket's Red Glare, June 1943
- L. Jerome Stanton: Measuring Rod, June 1946
- G. Harry Stein: Demon in a Bottle, April 1960
- R. D. Swisher, Ph.D.: Plan for a Universe, April 1946
- Pat Underhill: Mathematician, June 1944
- Peter Van Dresser: Introduction to a Nameless Science, June 1940
- Leo Vernon: Tools for Brains, July 1939
- Leo Vernon: Unseen Tools, June 1940
- Wells Alan Webb: Correlation of the Martian Canal Network, March 1956
- Earl Welch: Electrical Yardsticks, January 1946
- Wallace West: Oil for Tomorrow, November 1952
- Wallace West: Oil, Secret Agents and Woolly Bears, February 1953
- Wallace West: Five Billion Dollar Magpie, March 1953
- Wallace West: In Case of Fire, June 1953
- Wallace West: Locum Tenens, July 1953
- Wallace West: Washday Minus Zero, April 1954
- Daniel Whitton: No Green Cheese, September 1951
- Daniel Whitton: Venus of Troy, September 1953
- Daniel Whitton: Micro, Macro and King Size", January 1957
- Jack Williamson: Unpredictable, part 1 of 2, February 1946
- Jack Williamson: Unpredictable, part 2 of 2, March 1946
- Ralph Williams: But You Said..., October 1952
- Jack Williamson: Science Fiction in a Robot's Eye, November 1957
- Joseph A. Winter, M.D.: Endocrinology in Tough, October 1948
- Joseph A. Winter, M.D.: The General Adaptation Syndrome, November 1950
- Joseph A. Winter, M.D.: What is Psychosomatic?, August 1952
- Joseph A. Winter, M.D.: Thinking In Men and Machines, August 1953
- Murray F. Yaco: Divining Rod: Standard Equipment, October 1958
- Arthur Yuwiler: Two-Edged Miracle, June 1951