Will McAvoy, youre so smart Alec Nevala-Lee. The book as a whole is a sustained contribution to the study of American Genre SF as it matured. Lessons of The X-Files: The one show every TV exec should be watching Alec Nevala-Lee. As the subtitle indicates, Nevala-Lee also focuses on Isaac Asimov and Robert A Heinlein, both elusive and charismatic figures (especially the latter). Nevala-Lee's analysis of the life and work of John W Campbell, and of his effective creation of the Golden Age of SF, is sympathetic, nor does he become evasive as regards the saddening later years, with L Ron Hubbard's Dianetics being only one of the projects pursued in the magazine (see Imaginary Science Psi Powers Scientific Errors), whose only 'merits' seem to have been their unlikeliness.

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He lives with his family in Oak Park, Illinois. He is of immediate sf interest for his balanced and incisive history of Astounding Science-Fiction, Astounding: John W. Alec Nevala-Lee was born in Castro Valley, California, and graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor’s degree in Classics. His first series, the Icon Thief sequence, focuses on nonfantastic detections that almost enter Technothriller country. (1980- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with 'Inversus' in Analog for January-February 2004, and who has been associated with that magazine for most of his career, publishing there several supple Hard SF tales.

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