Mañana Literary Society was an informal meeting of science fiction writers in Los Angeles , California. Hosted by Robert A. Heinlein and his second wife Leslyn at their Laurel Canyon home,[ 1] Anthony Boucher , Arthur K. Barnes , Edmond Hamilton , L. Ron Hubbard , Henry Kuttner , C.L. Moore , L. Sprague de Camp , Cleve Cartmill , Leigh Brackett , Roby Wentz, and Jack Williamson . The young Ray Bradbury , who had not yet made his first story sale, was a guest at one or two meetings. The weekly meetings took place in 1940 and 1941, until the Pearl Harbor attack resulting in the U.S. entering World War II.[ 2]
Rocket to the Morgue The society and many of its members appear, thinly veiled, in Boucher's Rocket to the Morgue first edition , read "For The Mañana Literary Society and in particular for Robert Heinlein and Cleve Cartmill." Rocket to the Morgue is something of a roman à clef Robert A. Heinlein ("Austin Carter"), L. Ron Hubbard ("D. Vance Wimpole"), then-literary agent Julius Schwartz ("M. Halstead Phynn") and rocket scientist /occultist /fan Jack Parsons ("Hugo Chantrelle"); or recognizable composites of two writers ("Matt Duncan" - Cleve Cartmill and Henry Kuttner ; "Joe Henderson" - Jack Williamson and Edmond Hamilton ). Some writers' actual pseudonyms appear as minor characters, most prominently "Don Stuart, editor of Surprising " (John W. Campbell , editor of Astounding Science Fiction Anthony Boucher (whose real name was William Anthony Parker White).
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^ Williamson, Jack Who Was Robert Heinlein? in Requiem : new collected works by Robert A. Heinlein and tributes to the grand master NY 1992 pp.333-4 ISBN 0312855230
^ Williamson, Jack Who Was Robert Heinlein? in Requiem : new collected works by Robert A. Heinlein and tributes to the grand master NY 1992 p.334 ISBN 0312855230
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