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Astounding Stories #18: “Noise Level”

Note: As I dive into the research process for my upcoming book Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, I’ll be taking the opportunity to highlight works within the genre that deserve to be rediscovered, reappraised, or simply enjoyed by a wider audience. You can read the earlier installments here.

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On March 31, 1952, the science fiction editor John W. Campbell wrote a long letter to his friend Robert A. Heinlein. It began: “I’ve got an idea that may appeal to you as a starting point for a yarn. If so—I’d love it. If not—lemme know, and I’ll try it on someone else.” Campbell went on to describe the plot in great detail, from its initial premise to its concluding twist, which was unusual in itself: he often pitched ideas to writers, but he was generally happiest when the author came back to him with something he wasn’t expecting. In this case, however, he clearly wanted a story written to order. Here’s how it started:

The top scientists of the country are called into closed, secret session. One of the top men of the National Research Council gets up and explains. Joseph Quincy Doakes, a twenty-eight-year-old physicist, came to the Council and claimed he had an antigravity device. His technical knowledge was definitely of the highest order, but he was an insufferable egotist. He refused to tell anything about it until they’d seen it work. He gave a demonstration, a personal flying device. It worked.

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The scientists are shown filmed footage of the test at an airfield, with the inventor flying miraculously toward the sky—until something goes wrong. There’s a malfunction, the inventor crashes from five hundred feet, and he’s killed at once, with the antigravity device itself reduced to a smoking ruin.

As soon as the presentation is over, the scientists are informed that their assignment is to reproduce Doakes’s discovery, whatever the hell it was. Unfortunately, Doakes was so paranoid about his ideas being stolen that he left no record of his work: no notes, no diagrams, no trace of the underlying theory. All that remains is a nearly indecipherable audio recording of a brief explanation that he gave on the airfield that day, only a few words of which are audible. The scientists are each given a copy of the tape, along with unlimited resources and funding, and ordered to get cracking: “We need that device.” Eventually, after much feverish work, they manage to reconstruct a working antigravity machine using these meager clues, in defiance of all known laws of physics. And here’s the kicker, as Campbell told it to Heinlein:

The whole thing [is] one hundred percent fake. The purpose being this: a situation has been established wherein the top physicists of the nation have had firmly, solely planted on them these two propositions: an antigravity device can be made [and] we have to make it…With twenty brilliant minds, stored with vast quantities of data related to the problem, running wide open and under pressure to glean the necessary facts—with a whispering, noise-loaded voice in their ears, the voice of a dead man who did it—the half-heard, and nine-tenths guessed concepts he speaks—the tremendous straining concentration to find that hidden answer—

And you know, Bob, that same basic mechanism should work for a lot of other things!

In other words, it was a hoax designed to make the scientists to devote their best efforts to solving a problem that they otherwise would have dismissed out of hand. (As Norton Juster puts it so movingly in The Phantom Tollbooth: “So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”)

Heinlein ultimately passed on the idea, and Campbell eventually gave it to Raymond F. Jones, who wrote it up as a novelette that was published under the title “Noise Level” in the December 1952 issue of Astounding. It’s a wonderful story in its own right, and Jones adds a lot of nice touches that aren’t there in Campbell’s original pitch. For example, the scientists are taken to what they’re told was the home of the device’s late inventor, whose name in the finished version is Dunning. The house has a beautiful tinkerer’s lab, a machine shop, and a strange pair of libraries: one filled with physics and engineering titles, the other with books about astrology, the occult, and Eastern mysticism. As one of the scientists says disbelievingly: “It isn’t possible…that Dunning owned and understood both of these libraries.” Later, when asked why they included “the stuff on Babylonian mysticism, astrology, and the rest of that crud,” an organizer of the hoax explains:

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The whole project was set up to be as noisy as possible…We didn’t know how to produce antigravity, so we gave you a picture of a man who did, and made it as noisy as possible to loosen up your own noise filters on the subject. I offered you a dose of omniscient noise on the subject of antigravity, and the one inescapable conclusion that it had been done.

By “omniscient noise,” he’s referring to the idea, discussed earlier on, that pure noise—a completely random sequences of pulses—contains all possible messages and information, and that our ability to understand it depends on the mental filters that we’ve set up. Give a team of geniuses a source of raw noise and loosen up their filters, the story argues, and they can figure out just about anything, as long as they’re convinced that it’s possible.

And while “Noise Level” doesn’t bear Campbell’s name, it’s still one of the most personal statements he ever allowed into print. (It’s especially revealing that he originally approached Heinlein with the premise. Heinlein had written up a few of Campbell’s ideas before, in stories like “Sixth Column,” “Solution Unsatisfactory,” and “Universe,” but he hadn’t done so for over a decade. The fact that Campbell tried pitching the idea to his single best writer, even though it was highly unlikely that Heinlein would take it, tells us how important it was to him.) One of the first problems that occurs to anyone who studies Campbell is how the same man who was almost singlehandedly responsible for the rise of hard science fiction could also endorse such concepts as dianetics, psionics, the Hieronymus Machine, and the Dean Drive. You could say that Campbell genuinely believed that these phenomena existed; that he wanted to be responsible for popularizing a major discovery that would rival atomic power and space travel; that he saw them as a way to maintain science fiction’s status as a frontier literature; or that he wanted to challenge scientific orthodoxy by feeding it some of the most outrageous concepts imaginable. To some extent, all of these interpretations are accurate. But I’d like to think that Campbell revealed his true motivations in “Noise Level,” and that he spent his last two decades at the magazine deliberately trying to make his ongoing experiment with his readers as noisy as possible. Like the two libraries in Dunning’s house, Astounding ran hard science fiction side by side with pieces on psychic powers and dowsing, and many readers couldn’t understand how Campbell could believe in both. Maybe he did—but he also wanted to give his readers the chaotic raw material that they needed to expand their way of thinking. Whether or not he succeeded is another question entirely. But he thought it would take them to the stars.

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Serial:
The House of Styx (Part I) by Derek Künsken
Novelette:
One Basket by C.C. Finlay
Short Stories:
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Expecting to Fly by Edd Vick & Manny Frishberg
Midstrathe Exploding by Andy Dudak
A Stone's Throw from You by Jenn Reese
Dix Dayton, Jet Jockey by Liz A. Vogel
Cooling Chaos by Gregory Benford
Respite by Catherine Wells
Curious Algorithms by Hayden Trenholm
War Lily by Beth Dawkins
On the Causes and Consequences of Cat Ladies by Richard A. Lovett
Zeroth Contact by Joshua Cole
The Halting Problem by Em Liu
The Smartest Damn Machine on Earth by Bo Balder
Lemonade Stand by Brenda Kalt
Rover by A.T. Sayre
One Hundred by Sean Monaghan
Science Fact:
Veiling the Earth by Gregory Benford
The Pournelle Volume by Arlan Andrews, Sr. Poetry:
How to Go Twelfth by Mary Soon Lee
Planck by Josh Pearce
Reader's Departments:
Guest Editorial: The Art of Noise by Alec Nevala-Lee
The Alternate View by John G. Cramer
In Times to Come
The Reference Library by Don Sakers
Brass Tacks
The 2019 Index
Upcoming Events by Anthony Lewis
Cover Art by Eldar Zakirov for The House of Styx
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Novelettes:
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Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars by Mercurio D. Rivera
Opportunity Space by Nathan Hillstrom
Short Stories:
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Skin by Garrett Ashley
Rena in the Desert by Lia Swope Mitchell
So Long as We Both by Tom Purdom
Return to the Red Castle by Ray Nayler
Tachyon Hearts Cannot Love by Derek Künsken
Poetry:
Your Clone Seeks Cardinal Truths by Robert Frazier
Relic by Jane Yolen
Departments:
Guest Editorial: Thoughts on a Definition of Science Fiction by David D. Levine
Reflection: Do Androids Dream of Electric Popes? by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: Who Are You Calling a Punk? by James Patrick Kelly
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The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss
Cover Art by John Picacio originally published for Gateway by Frederik Pohl (Del Rey)
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Fiction:
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The Host by Neal Asher
Jigsaw Children by Grace Chan
Generation Gap by Thoraiya Dyer
Nonfiction:
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Nanobots and Braincases: A Conversation with Tochi Onyebuchi by Arley Sorg
Faith in Vision: A Conversation with Ken Liu by Arley Sorg
Editor's Desk:2019 Reader's Poll Finalists by Neil Clarke
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Science Fiction Stories:
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Dying Light by Maria Romasco-Moore (Reprint)
The Gamecocks by JT Petty
Fantasy Stories:
Noah's Raven by Kij Johnson
A Statement in the Case by Theodora Goss (Reprint)
Toxic Destinations by Alexander Weinstein
A Stranger at the Bochinche by Daniel José Older (Reprint)
Author Spotlights:
Brenda Peynado, JT Petty,
Kij Johnson, and Alexander Weinstein
Nonfiction:
Editorial, February 2020 by John Joseph Adams
Book Reviews: February 2020 by LaShawn M. Wanak
Media Review: February 2020 by Jeremiah Tolbert
Interview: Nino Cipri by Christian A. Coleman
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Stories:
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No Exit by Orrin Grey (Reprint)
Author Spotlights:
Adam-Troy Castro and 'Pemi Aguda
Nonfiction:
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Novelets:
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The Last Legend by Matthew Hughes
Hacksilver by Elizabeth Bear
Death on the Nefertem Express by Brian Trent
Short Stories:
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Red Sword of the Celiac by John Possidente
Say You're Sorry by Amman Sabet
A Solitary Crane Circles Cold Mountain by Gregor Hartmann
A Feast of Butterflies by Amanda Hollander
Hungry is the Earth by William Ledbetter
The Man I Love by James Patrick Kelly
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Books by Elizabeth Hand
Films: Wet Screams by David Skal
Science: Natural Disasters in Utopia by Jerry Oltion
Coming Attractions
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