According to Damon Knight,
The Futurians were apparently not much impressed by Asimov at this time. Pohl remembers him as small, skinny and pimpled, and says that his conversation did not sparkle; he seemed to have absorbed a lot of information without thinking much about it. Wollheim says that later on, when he came to visit the Futurians, he often had to be ejected because he was noisy. "After about half an hour we couldn't take him. Dirk [Harry Dockweiler] and myself, or Dick Wilson and Bob Lowndes would simply take him and heave him through the door. We couldn't stand him, you know. You can't really offend Ike, he always came back."
While Asimov insisted that he has no memory of any such incident, it is not difficult to accept Wollheim's words as only a slight exaggeration. Any reader of Asimov's prefaces to his own works and others' would agree that he is hardly laconic.
On 21 June 1938, a few months earlier than his first encounter with the Futurians, Asimov first met John W. Campbell, Jr., the new editor of Astounding Science-Fiction. Asimov had just finished his first science-fiction story and had decided to show it to Campbell.
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