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1 Hugo Gernsback Stumbles on the Formula for Science Fiction As a child in Luxembourg, Gernsback was enthralled by a biography of Percival Lowell, for whom the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff was named. As an adult emigre to the U.S. he eventually founded the magazine Amazing Stories in 1926. The first issue had six stories, three of which were reprints of recent works and a story each by Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells. This ratio of three parts literature Poe, Verne, Wells to one part science Lowell became his official formula. 2 John W. Campbell flunks German And because Campbell failed his German class, he was tossed out of MIT, and wound up going to Duke University to finish his physics degree. There, he met Joseph Banks Rhine and became involved in Rhine experiments in parapsychology and ESP 鈥?starting a lifelong fascination with the power of the human mind and helping to push
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