From: jdnicoll@panix.com
In article <10cbnh7$9pqc$1@dont-email.me>,
William Hyde wrote:
>James Nicoll wrote:
>> In article ,
>> Ted Nolan wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> Robert Woodward wrote:
>>>> In article <10cb442$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-should-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?
People have reported that Kingsbury is dead but I have been unable
to determine if that is true or false.
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