I was hastening. I was 21 years old a graduate student in chemistry at Columbia University and I had been writing science fiction professionally for three years. In that time I had sold five stories to John Campbell editor of Astounding and the fifth story "Nightfall " was about to appear in the September 1941 issue of the magazine. I had an appointment to see Mr. Campbell to tell him the plot of a new story I was planning to write and the catch was that I had no plot in mind not the trace of one... read more
