Astounding (magazine)

Astounding Stories was a seminal science fiction magazine founded in 1930. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, first edited by Harry Bates, is generally considered the forum where modern science fiction was created. It has changed names repeatedly, most importantly in 1938 to Astounding Science-Fiction, and then in the 1960s to Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, under which name it is still published. The word "and" was sometimes replaced in the logo by a pseudo-mathematical symbol comprising a horizontal right-pointing arrow piercing an inverted U-shape. The symbol, apparently invented by Campbell, was said to mean "analogous to".

Editors

• Harry Bates, 1930-1933
• F. Orlin Tremaine, 1933-1938
• John W. Campbell, 1938-1971
• Ben Bova, 1971-1978
• Stanley Schmidt, 1978 to present