Out of Night

Campbell, John W. "Out of Night." Astounding Oct. 1937. "Cloak of Aesir." Astounding March 1939. Coll. Cloak of Aesir. Chicago: Shasta, 1952. The Best of John W. Campbell (listed under Anthologies and Collections). ''Who Goes There? And Other Stories''. New York: Dell, 1955.

One story in two parts. Important for Jungian and other archetypal approaches to the motif of mechanized environments: inverts many of the traditional oppositions between the Great Mother (and matriarchy) and her male opponents.