ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION (ASF)

a pulp magazine founded in 1930 as Astounding Stories of Super Science, which featured adventure stories and later science fiction. In March 1933 ASF ceased publication, however, shortly after this the title was bought by Street & Smith Publishing, who restored it to its monthly schedule, changing the name to Astounding Stories. The magazine became a going concern and in 1937 Street & Smith appointed a young writer, John W. Campbell, Jr. (1910-1971), as its editor, and changed its name to Astounding Science Fiction. Its name went back and forth several times from Astounding Science Fiction to Astounding Stories and eventually