![]() ![]() There is no real evidence for this, in spite of a statement to that effect in the first volume of Isaac Asimov's autobiography, In Memory Yet Green. An often-repeated legend has it that Campbell, on receiving the manuscript for Sinister Barrier, created Unknown primarily as a vehicle for the short novel. This is an explicitly Fortean tale based (as Russell explains in the novel's foreword) on Charles Fort's famous speculation "I think we're property". ![]() ![]() Russell's first novel was Sinister Barrier, published in the first issue of Astounding's short-lived sister magazine Unknown (March 1939). Both Russell and Johnson became members of the British Interplanetary Society. Together, the two men wrote the novella "Seeker of Tomorrow" which was published in Astounding in July 1937. Russell met up with Johnson, who encouraged him to embark on a writing career. Johnson, another reader from the same area. Russell became a fan of science fiction, and in 1934 while living near Liverpool he saw a letter in Amazing Stories written by Leslie J. ![]() Russell was born in 1905 in Sandhurst in Berkshire, where his father was an instructor at the Royal Military Academy. ![]()
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