“Farewell to the Master”
Harry Bates
The Day the Earth Stood Still

Harry Bates was the first editor of Astounding Stories of Super-Science, known as Analog today.  He was born on this date, October 9, in 1900.

Astounding Stories of Super-Science was the second science fiction pulp, intended as a competitor of Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories.  Bates is credited with infusing a sense of action and adventure into the field, in contrast to the stuffy, intellectual type of story favored by Gernsback.  I’m going to have to read some of those stories and report back. Continue reading →