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PodchaserDid Cleve Cartmill really predict how an atomic bomb would work, or did he have help? We discuss John W. Campbell’s influence on this story and the value of predictive science fiction.
Links:
Deadline by Cleve Cartmill [Astounding March 1944]:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v33n01_1944-03_dtsg0318-LennyS/mode/1up
Solution Unsatisfactory by Robert Heinlein (as Anson MacDonald) [Astounding May 1941]:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v27n03_1941-05/mode/1up
The World Set Free by H. G. Wells [1914]:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/105
