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   SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers (sffmagazinecovers@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 21:25:58 JST SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers

   Astounding vol. 45, no. 3 (May 1950)

   Be honest, the only thing we care about on this cover is “Dianetics”, a new science of the mind. This must have been one of its first appearances? And it's in a fiction magazine?

   Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v45n03_1950-05_cape1736

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 21:25:53 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Anna D

     @landetannien @nyrath @SFFMagazineCovers It has been alleged that Hubbard had a bet with Robert A. Heinlein that he could get rich from religion. Heinlein wrote "Stranger in a Strange Land"; Hubbard invented Scientology. (This was in the early 1940s when Hubbard was Heinlein's lodger, and allegedly having an affair with his wife.)

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     Anna D (landetannien@mastodonsweden.se)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 21:25:55 JST Anna D

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     • Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

     @nyrath @SFFMagazineCovers Yes, Campbell was very interested in powers of the mind, strange ideas about ESP and so on.

     Also, L. Ron Hubbard *did* write science fiction, so he was in the SF world. I have never read any of his works, so I don't know if they were any good at all. Some golden age SF ideas seem to have been turned into the lore of scientology.

     It also weems like Hubbard talked about starting a religion to get rich: https://tonyortega.org/2016/01/19/when-the-feds-tracked-down-l-ron-hubbards-boast-about-getting-rich-by-creating-a-religion/

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     Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 21:25:56 JST Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

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     Well, that is because one of the biggest cheerleaders of Dianetics was John W. Campbell jr, who just so happened to be the editor for Astounding magazine.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 01:51:40 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Anna D

     @landetannien @nyrath @SFFMagazineCovers "Stranger" was, AIUI, written quite a few years before it was published—Heinlein didn't consider it publishable during the 1950s because of censorship/morality laws.

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     Anna D (landetannien@mastodonsweden.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 01:51:42 JST Anna D

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     • Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

     @cstross @nyrath @SFFMagazineCovers Haha, great!

     Just to place this in time:
     Stanger in a Strange Land was published in 1961.
     Scientology was founded in the early 1950's, after a conflict about Dianetics. (Some more info about that in my link.)