From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   James Nicoll wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Ted Nolan   wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Robert Woodward   wrote:   
   >>> In article <10cb442$imh$1@reader2.panix.com>,   
   >>> jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Five Extremely Convincing Reasons We Should Build Armed Bases on the Moon   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I mean, what could possibly go wrong?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >> https://reactormag.com/five-extremely-convincing-reasons-we-s   
   ould-build-armed   
   >>>> -bases-on-the-moon/   
   >>>   
   >>> Of course, after the war has been fought (successfully) and the military   
   >>> base is no longer needed, it could be abandoned. OBsf Ref: "The Ghost   
   >>> Town" by Donald Kingsbury (June 1952 issue of Astounding SF, the only   
   >>> appearance mentioned by the ISFDB).   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Had not realized that Kingsbury went that far back (nor that he is 96 now!).   
   >>   
   >> I need to re-read _Courtship Rite_ at some point.   
   >   
   > Kingsbury is part of a cohort of SF authors who had one or two stories   
   > published in the 1950s, quit for a couple of decades, and then returned.   
   > Dean Ing is another.   
      
   With the death two years ago of professor Chandler Davis, longest   
   surviving writer of the 40s cohort, is Kingsbury the earliest published   
   Astounding (or any other SF publication) still alive?   
      
   William Hyde   
      
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