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INSIDE MAN & OTHER STORIES
Science Fiction on the Gold Standard
By
H.L. GOLD
A Renaissance E Books publication

ISBN1-58873-181-2

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Copyright ┬й 2003 by E. J. Gold

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CONTENTS
Introduction
Inside Man
Personnel Problem
The Riches of Embarrassment
Someone to Watch over Me (with Floyd Gold)
Grifter's Asteroid
What Price Wings?
Transmogrification of Wamba's Revenge

INTRODUCTION
Between the mid-1930s and 1950, the legendary editor John W. Campbell, Jr. used
the pages of the old pulp magazineAstounding to single-handedly turned science
fiction into a serious literature based on rigorous, contemporary (rather than
out-dated) scientific extrapolation, generally focused on some "hard" science like
engineering or physics or ballistics. Some measure of Campbell's achievement can
be found in the names of the writers he schooled and the stories they wrote for him.
These include Asimov's Foundation and Robot series; Heinlein'sDouble Star,