He was a very well-known mathematician who began publishing very good stories in Astounding SF shortly after the end of the Second World War. (Curiously, Asimov's story is one of his rare fantasies his The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline might have been a better choice.) The story that Conklin presented for the first time was by Chan Davis, a now almost forgotten writer. Haldane, Willy Ley, Julian Huxley, and Norbert Wiener, as well as science fiction notables like Chad Oliver, Arthur C. There are stories from well-knowns such as Leo Szilard, J.B.S. The stories originally appeared from 1927 up to one story that was original to the book. Also, I think Conklin was a little loose in his definitions of both "great science fiction" and "scientists," but if the title had been "some pretty good stories by some people with some scientific connections" sales might not have been as brisk. At the time, before the New Wave mid-'60s era, science fiction was defined by strict purists as fiction about future scientists doing future science in the future, so it has to be considered in this historical light. This is an interesting theme anthology edited by Groff Conklin that first appeared in 1962.
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