Sentence examples for in astounding from inspiring English sources
Mr. Cartier's work was also prominent in Astounding Science Fiction, for which he illustrated stories by writers like Hubbard, Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon and Robert A. Heinlein.
On display is a card showing that the horror and science fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft was paid $350 for his classic "At the Mountains of Madness," which appeared in Astounding Stories magazine.
He had loved science fiction since boyhood — he later told of how at twelve he had a dream of searching in Astounding Stories for a story called "The Empire Never Ended" that would reveal the mysteries of existence — and he began writing quickie sci-fi novels for Ace in the fifties and sixties.
Hubbard's "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" appeared pretty much out of nowhere in May 1950, trailing little advance notice beyond an excerpt in "Astounding Science Fiction" and a shout-out from the columnist Walter Winchell, who suggested that Dianetics would "prove to be as revolutionary for humanity as the first caveman's discovery and utilization of fire".
Smith originally conceived of his next series as a single gigantic novel, but it was published from 1937 to 1948 as four separate books, the Lensman series, in Astounding Stories (after 1938, Astounding Science-Fiction): Galactic Patrol (1937 38), Gray Lensman (1939 40), Second Stage Lensmen (1941 42), and Children of the Lens (1947 48).
His best-known work, "Mission of Gravity," a novel serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in 1953, became an exemplar among science-fiction writers and readers for what is known as world-building -- the creation of a scientifically plausible planet as background for an extraterrestrial narrative in which every detail of plot and character is logically compatible with the setting.
He's in France, astounding the aeronautical community there with his remarkable and beautiful flights.
He rode the rails, landing in Mexico in 1923, astounded to discover that a black man could be served alongside whites.
'He has the instincts of a man who has spent a lifetime in politics and a political maturity astounding in someone so inexperienced,' said McGovern.
The results – lower levels of anxiety and depression in clients and improvements in self-esteem and social functioning – have been, in her words, astounding.
Even in a plunging stock market the numbers are in many cases astounding.
