If you drop the “infotainment issues” from the study, how much does that change the rankings? I’m neither attacking nor defending any automaker, but it seems to me that the internet connection/radio/whatever shouldn’t be weighted quite as much as a transmission that doesn’t work or airbags that don’t open.

When a president* has to follow Pence’s lead in condemning terrorist acts, you know you’re dealing with a truly weak, cowardly individual.

Couldn’t they just invite the Mercurochrome-soaked...oh, sorry, sorry, sorry!...the bloody blood-soaked bloody sock to throw out the first bloody pitch? 

And Number Three in this trope will be a horror flick where the creatures can only be escaped by...not tasting them.

This will probably get even worse for filmmakers. Imagine in thirty years, when you’ll have the option of acquiring phone service via pretty much any electrical device: your toothbrush, your variable size elevator shoes, a reclining-vibrating chair, even your pogo-stick that keeps track of how many times you hop.

Um...I was bowling. But I didn’t have my niblick and didn’t make the green.

Going to be interesting when Disney buys the rights to the DC characters...

I encountered a troll this morning on the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s FB page who was seriously equating people being mean to him on Facebook with other people sending functional bombs in the mail.

Bear in mind that in 1938 there was literally no market for science fiction novels in book form. If it couldn’t run as a serial in one of the pulp magazines -- or, far less likely, in one of the slick paper magazines -- it wasn’t going to be published anywhere.

Yes, I rather lazily wrapped that into “frequently controversial” and assumed that others would know of his prejudices against not only African-Americans, but against pretty much anyone who wasn’t northern European white and Christian. Sloppy writing on my part.

I think Barlowe based the painting upon Campbell’s story.

I don’t get the kickstarter angle, either, but the book will be coming from Wildside Press (wildsidepress.com) which prints a lot of pulp era stories — frequently public domain — both in print and e-book form. They’re not a major publisher, but they do have a quality backlist of writers whose works they handle.

I’d agree with Eville1 on that: both.

No, his career is well documented. Some years as a freelance pulp science fiction writer, and then over thirty years as the highly influential and frequently controversial editor of Astounding Stories, still running and now called Analog. He was so prolific that, in order to keep from having two “Campbell stories” in…

So...the reptilian aliens of Fomalhaut XII-B will be perplexed to wonder why that long-lost planet Earth spent all its time and resources Fedex’ing corpses halfway across the galaxy...

Horror movie premise: a restauranteur buys up all the frozen dead, puts them on the menu. “It’s not cannibalism if they’re frozen!”

For the record: “Who Goes There?” is an excellent pulp science fiction story, rather ahead of its time. Nothing in the way of characterization or story arc — the pulps rarely indulged in that — but as a problem-solving tale, intelligent and exciting!

If my somewhat shaky grasp on US copyright law is correct, an unpublished work such as this one would be copyright protected until about 2047. (This is based upon Wikipedia reading, and should in no way be taken as expert opinion. :) )

I wonder that, too. Campbell wrote it and ran it under the byline “Don A. Stuart” in Astounding Stories, the magazine he was editing at the time. (His wife’s name was Dona Stuart, by the way.) So if the editor told him to cut down the story for magazine publication, he himself was that editor. Space reasons or quality…