In the first place, we started in the early days of science fiction — not only the Big Three, but others of importance such as Lester del Rey, Poul A… - Isaac Asimov

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In the first place, we started in the early days of science fiction — not only the Big Three, but others of importance such as Lester del Rey, Poul Anderson, Fred Pohl, Clifford Simak, Ray Bradbury, and even some who died young: Stanley Weinbaum, Henry Kuttner, and Cyril Kornbluth, for instance. In those early days, the magazines paid only one cent a word or less, and there were only magazines. There were no hardcover science fiction publishers, no paperbacks, no Hollywood to speak of.