If you loved how Seekers of Tomorrow jumps from John W. Campbell’s editorial machinations to Isaac Asimov’s breakthrough with “Nightfall,” from Robert Heinlein’s Navy-forged discipline to Theodore Sturgeon’s struggles before pieces like “Microcosmic God,” you’ll relish Knight’s insider portraits. The Futurians drops you right into the same circle—Asimov, Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth, Judith Merril—showing how the personalities you met in Moskowitz’s profiles collided and collaborated in shabby apartments and magazine offices to reshape the field.

Moskowitz traces careers across years—Campbell steering Astounding, Asimov refining story ideas at the editor’s desk, van Vogt assembling fix-ups like Slan, and C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner’s collaborative surge. The World Beyond the Hill widens that lens, mapping the philosophical and cultural currents beneath those same milestones so you can see how the field grew from the pulps to the Golden Age that your favorite chapters in Seekers of Tomorrow keep returning to.

If the editorial and fandom scuffles peeking through Seekers of Tomorrow—Campbell’s iron editorial hand over Astounding, the jockeying that affected Asimov’s earliest sales, the magazine turf wars that shaped Heinlein’s outlets—caught your eye, The Immortal Storm is Moskowitz’s full dive. You’ll get the 1939 Worldcon clashes, factional infighting among the Futurians, and the machinations that explain why those author trajectories in Seekers zigged when you expected them to zag.

Part of Seekers of Tomorrow’s charm is how each chapter functions like a stand-alone profile—Heinlein’s ‘Future History’ method here, Sturgeon’s reinvention there—letting you dip in for a sharp hit of context and lore. Knight’s classic collection offers that same bite-sized richness: incisive essays and reviews that unpack the craft and reputations of many of the writers you just read about, with the same quick stride from story facts to big takeaways.

Moskowitz shows you Campbell nudging ideas like “Nightfall” into place and shaping magazine identity while authors like Heinlein recalibrated to meet that vision. Nevala-Lee drills into those very relationships with new detail—Campbell’s editorial theories in practice, Asimov’s early dependence on that office door, and the ripple effects on contemporaries from van Vogt to Hubbard—giving you the deeper mechanics behind the anecdotes you enjoyed in Seekers of Tomorrow.