EXPLORING TOMORROW

JOHN W. CAMPBELL JR.

"Exploring Tomorrow" was a science fiction hosted radio anthology series with announcers Bill Mahr and Guy Wallace; and narrated by John W. Campbell. The series which aired from 4 December 1957 until 13 June 1958, aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System. The series was discribed as "the first science-fiction show of science-fictioneers, by science-fictioneers and for science-fictioneers - real science fiction for a change!" EPISODES JOHN W. CAMPBELL John Wood Capbell Jr was born on 8 June 1910 in Newark, New Jersey, USA; and passed away on 11 July 1971 in Mountainside, New Jersey, USA. Campbell was a writer of scien e fiction and edited "Astounding Science Fiction" (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact) from 1937. "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" wrote this about Campell: "More than any other individual, he helped to shape modern sf", and Darrell Schweitzer credits Campbell with having "decreed that SF writers should pull themselves up out of the pulp mire and start writing intelligently, for adults". Below is episode 1 - "Exploring Tomorrow":

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