{"id":9811,"date":"2006-10-30T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/10\/30\/astounding.html"},"modified":"2006-10-30T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T15:17:23","slug":"astounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/30\/astounding.html","title":{"rendered":"Astounding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfcovers.net\/Magazines\/ASF\/ASF_0130.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Astounding Science Fiction - September 1941 - Nightfall by Isaac Asimov\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/astounding-sept41-nightfall.jpg\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfcovers.net\/Magazines\/ASF\/navbar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Faboo collection of covers from <em>Astounding Science Fiction<\/em><\/a> (now <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.analogsf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Analog<\/a><\/em>), one of the great pulp SF magazines of all time (esp. under the long-time editorship of John Campbell), and source of much of the golden age of SF. It&#8217;s amazing to see the first visualization of so many classic SF stories from Asimov, Heinlein, Anderson, etc. <\/p>\n<p>(The main site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfcovers.net\/mainnav.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, but it&#8217;s all ugly frame bits, so you have to do some drilling down to get to the meat of it all.) <\/p>\n<p>(via <small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/10\/30\/astounding_stories_c.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a><\/small>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faboo collection of covers from Astounding Science Fiction (now Analog), one of the great pulp SF magazines of all time (esp. under the long-time editorship of John Campbell), and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11839,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/we_are_lookink_for_nuclea.html","url_meta":{"origin":9811,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;We are lookink for nuclear wessels!&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Jan-08 1:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Fascinating story (part 1, part 2)\u00a0about a 1944 SF story by Cleve Cartmill\u00a0published in Astounding Science Fiction that got military intelligence all a-twitter over its depiction of an atomic bomb...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6826,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/23\/babe_in_spaaaaa.html","url_meta":{"origin":9811,"position":1},"title":"Babe!  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