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| | "Reflections" by Robert Silverberg |
 | | Campbells taste was a more sober one: what he wanted were smoothly told stories of the relatively near future, with realistically drawn characters and careful attention to scientific plausibility, and he let it be known he would welcome submissions from any writer, known or unknown, who could meet the standard he hoped to set. |
 | | Though that one made little impact, he was back in October with "The Command," the story of a bear with a high IQ and a liking for chemistry, that touched off popular demand for a string of sequels, and his career as a science-fiction writer was launched. |
 | | Another notable de Camp story is "The Wheels of If" (Astounding, 1940), a rollicking alternate-universe story that transports another twentieth-century man into a mysteriously transmogrified twentieth century in which, he eventually discovers, the New World is controlled by the descendants of the Viking explorers of a thousand years earlier. |
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