From now on, Campbell wrote little sf under his own name, preferring to concentrate on the highly popular Stuart stories exceptions included the Penton and Blake series published in Thrilling Wonder Stories from December 1936 to October 1938 and collected in The Planeteers (coll of linked stories 1966 dos), and, on one occasion, the use of the name Karl Van Campen for a story in an issue of Astounding that already contained a Stuart story and part of a Campbell novel. The second phase of Campbell's career as a writer began with "Twilight" (November 1934 Astounding), a tale of the Far Future written in a moody, "poetic" style, the first of a number of stories, far more literary in tone and varied in mood, published under the pseudonym Don A Stuart. Also well received was The Mightiest Machine (December 1934-April 1935 Astounding 1947), but three sequels featuring its hero Aarn Munro were rejected by Astounding's editor F Orlin Tremaine, eventually appearing in The Incredible Planet (coll of linked stories 1949). Initially published in various magazines from 1930, they were put into book form as The Black Star Passes (coll of linked stories 1953), Islands of Space (Spring 1931 Amazing Stories Quarterly 1957) and Invaders from the Infinite (not his first, lost story) (Spring 1932 Amazing Stories Quarterly 1961) all were assembled as A John W.
The most popular of these was the Arcot, Morey and Wade series, in which the heroes faced a succession of battles of ever-increasing size fought with a succession of wonderful Weapons of ever-decreasing likelihood. In the early 1930s Campbell quickly built a reputation as E E "Doc" Smith's chief rival in writing galactic epics of superscience.
An inferior novel drafted circa 1928 was rewritten at Campbell's request by Clifford D Simak in 1939 or 1940 and eventually appeared as Empire: A Powerful Novel of Intrigue and Action in the Not-So-Distant Future ( 1951) as by Simak alone, Campbell having refused both to be co-credited or to share the receipts. Campbell was a devotee of the SF Magazines from their inception, and sold his first stories while still a teenager, beginning with "Invaders from the Infinite" to Amazing Stories however, the manuscript was lost by editor T O'Conor Sloane, so it was his second sale, When the Atoms Failed (January 1930 Amazing 2016 dos), that became his first published story. (1910-1971) US author and editor who took a degree in physics in 1932 from MIT and Duke University.
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