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John W. Campbell was born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was an American science fiction writer and editor. As a writer, he published super-science space opera under his own name and moody stories under his primary and most famous pseudonym, Don A. Stuart. He also wrote under the pen names Karl Van Kampen and Arthur McCann. He stopped writing fiction after he became editor of Astounding. His novella "Who Goes There?" was adapted as the films The Thing from Another World, The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011). He earned a BS degree in physics from Duke University in 1932. He wrote several science fiction novels include: The Mightiest Machine, The Incredible Planet, Islands of Space, Invaders from the Infinite, and The Ultimate Weapon. He wrote several short story collections include: The Moon Is Hell!, Cloak of Aesir, The Best of John W. Campbell, The Black Star Passes, and The Space Beyond.