A._Bertram_Chandler, Isaac Asimov, and A.C. Clarke are old standby's for good Sci. Fi. I think. Edmund Hamilton is another good one. I agree that editors had a good deal of input. From what I've read John W. Campbell was one of those editors. He helped many of the old masters get established. And of course many of them wrote in the 'pulp' era where the author got .01 a word if they were lucky. So that they had to write a lot in order to pay the rent and keep food on the table.
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