La Bête d'un autre monde (Who Goes There ?) première publication dans Astounding Science-Fiction, 1938 Cécité (Blindness) première publication dans Astounding Stories, 1935 Points de friction (Frictional Losses) première publication dans Astounding Stories, 1936 Suicide (Dead Knowledge) première publication dans Astounding Stories, 1938 Élimination (Elimination) première publication dans Astounding Stories, 1936 Crépuscule (Twilight) première publication dans Astounding Stories, 1934 Le Ciel est mort (Night) première publication dans Astounding Stories, 1935 L'Éveil d'Aesir (Out of Night) première publication dans Astounding Stories, 1937 Le Manteau d'Aesir (Cloak of Aesir) première publication dans Astounding Science-Fiction, 1939
Les deux dernières nouvelles n'apparaissent qu'à partir de l'édition Robert Laffont et sont regroupées en une seule histoire, L'Histoire d'Aesir, dans l'édition du Livre de poche, avec une traduction de Michel Deutsch et Francis Valéry.
John Wood Campbell, Jr. was an influential figure in American science fiction. As editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact), from late 1937 until his death, he is generally credited with shaping the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction.
Isaac Asimov called Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever, and for the first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely."
As a writer, Campbell published super-science space opera under his own name and moody, less pulpish stories as Don A. Stuart. He stopped writing fiction after he became editor of Astounding.