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TWO TYPEWRITTEN LETTERS SIGNED (TLsS), two pages, dated 23 March 1961 and one page, dated 26 November 1961, both written on his Colorado Springs, Colorado stationery, from Heinlein to "Dear Harold" [Wooster], both signed "Bob," 1 TYPEWRITTEN LETTER SIGNED (TLS), one page, dated 12 July 1963, on ANALOG letterhead, from Campbell to "Dear Mr. Wooster," signed John W. Campbell, plus carbons of Wooster's letters to Heinlein and Graham DuShane, editor of SCIENCE.
The correspondence relates to an article Dr. Wooster wrote on the coining of the word "xenobiology" (the study of the biology of alien life-forms) generally credited to Heinlein for use in "Star Lummox" (F&SF, May-July 1954; STAR BEAST, Scribner's 1954), which incorporates his correspondence with Heinlein, published in SCIENCE 134: 3473 (July 1961) 223-225. Harold Abbott Wooster (1919-2005) was the chief of the information sciences division of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in the 1960s, a computer pioneer "whose decades-long career in information science influenced the development of computer technology and medical television ... He left the Air Force's scientific research office, which considered him a pioneer in the information science field, in 1970. From 1970 to 1984, Dr. Wooster worked at the National Library of Medicine's Lister Hill Center for Biomedical Communications. He supervised experiments using television to connect patients in remote areas to doctors" (Washington Post obit 3 June 2005). Dr. Wooster published a single SF story, "Y + Sin X," ASTOUNDING (September 1943). See Patterson, William H., Robert A. Heinlein, Volume 2, p. 211.
UNKNOWN WORLDS.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Fiction by L. Ron Hubbard, Anthony Boucher, Jane Rice and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue cover by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Ray Bradbury short story-his first in ASTOUNDING for the regular story section - "Doodad." It also includes an appearance in the PROBABILITY ZERO column (where his previous appearance was) with "And Watch the Fountains." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue cover by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Ray Bradbury short story-his first in ASTOUNDING for the regular story section - "Doodad." It also includes an appearance in the PROBABILITY ZERO column (where his previous appearance was) with "And Watch the Fountains." Also includes Hal Clement, A. E. Van Vogt, H. H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher) and C. L. Moore. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue cover by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Ray Bradbury short story-his first in ASTOUNDING for the regular story section - "Doodad." It also includes an appearance in the PROBABILITY ZERO column (where his previous appearance was) with "And Watch the Fountains." Also includes Hal Clement, A. E. Van Vogt, H. H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher) and C. L. Moore. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue cover by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Ray Bradbury short story-his first in ASTOUNDING for the regular story section - "Doodad." It also includes an appearance in the PROBABILITY ZERO column (where his previous appearance was) with "And Watch the Fountains." Also includes Hal Clement, A. E. Van Vogt, H. H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher) and C. L. Moore. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
UNKNOWN WORLDS.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by James H. Schmitz, Jack Williamson, Theodore Sturgeon with James Beard, Anthony Boucher and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN WORLDS.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Fiction by Anthony Boucher, Theodore Sturgeon, Eric Frank Russell, Jane Rice and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN WORLDS.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Anthony Boucher, Manly Wade Wellman, Theodore Sturgeon and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN WORLDS.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Anthony Boucher, E.M. Hull, Manly Wade Wellman, Theodore Sturgeon and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN WORLDS.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by A. E. Van Vogt, E. Mayne Hull, Jane Rice and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN WORLDS.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The final issue. Fiction by A.E. van Vogt and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN WORLDS.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The final issue. Fiction by A.E. van Vogt and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Theodore Stugeon (two, the second using the pseudonym E. Hunter Waldo), Nelson S. Bond, Fritz Leiber and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Theodore Stugeon (two, the second using the pseudonym E. Hunter Waldo), Nelson S. Bond, Fritz Leiber and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Theodore Stugeon (two, the second using the pseudonym E. Hunter Waldo), Nelson S. Bond, Fritz Leiber and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents include fiction by Norvell Page, J. Allan Dunn and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents include fiction by Norvell Page, J. Allan Dunn and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents include fiction by Norvell Page, J. Allan Dunn and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents include: "The Bronze Door" by Raymond Chandler, in which a man purchases a 'magic door' which when things go through it they disappear, which is what he does to his wife who is filing for divorce. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes L. Ron Hubbard, C.L. Moore, L. Sprague De Camp and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Devil Makes the Law!" by Robert A. Heinlein. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.