John W. Campbell

John Wood Campbell Jr. was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction, later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact, from late 1937 until his death, and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. He wrote super-science space opera under his own name. He was born in 1910 and died in 1971. He wrote other stories under his primary pseudonym Don A. Stuart, and also used the pen names Karl Van Kampen and Arthur McCann. His novella Who Goes There? of 1938 was adapted as the films The Thing from Another World and The Thing.