The World of Mad Men (Fwd: Digest Number 1115)

> And then, in a recent episode, we learn that a character has been
> writing SF stories in his spare time and getting them published in the
> SF magazines of the day...

Idle musings follow:

Chip was writing novels (not short stories yet, in 1966 -- Babel-17 and
Empire Star) and selling them to Ace. It was interesting to think of the
young Chip as I watched the episode just 'offstage' as it were in the Mad
Men world. Down in the bohemian part of town.

I was wondering how realistic it was to have Cosgrove actually take a
meeting with an editor from Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux. In spite of him
having published a literary short or two previously, he was publishing
genre (in Galaxy, no less). The state of the science fiction was heavily
ghettoized in that era, with the exception of name writers like Heinlein
and Bradbury. It would have been more usual to have him talking with an
editor from Ace (or some other pb publisher) about a collection of shorts
(i.e., Heinlein's _The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein_ came out from Ace in
1966).

Ballantine in 1966:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisheryear.cgi?19+1966
Ace in 1966
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisheryear.cgi?37+1966

Mind you, Farrar, Strauss and Young had published Sturgeon's More Than
Human a decade earlier but it feels like a strange exception:

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?1667