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| | "Reflections" by Robert Silverberg |
 | | Campbell, who had been a great science fiction writer himself (his most famous story is "Who Goes There?") needed some time to work off the inventory of the previous editor, F. Orlin Tremaine, under whose auspices the magazine had specialized in bold and often wildly fantastic tales of the far future, usually crudely written. |
| | 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. |
| | Campbell’s 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. |
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