Edmond Hamilton

Edmond Hamilton
Hamilton c. 1956
Hamilton c. 1956
BornEdmond Moore Hamilton
(1904-10-21)October 21, 1904
Youngstown, Ohio, U.S.
DiedFebruary 1, 1977(1977-02-01) (aged 72)
Lancaster, California, U.S.
OccupationWriter
GenreScience fiction, horror, fantasy, crime fiction, superhero fiction
Spouse
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(m. 1946)​
The August 1926 Weird Tales featured Hamilton's first published story.
"The Star-Stealers" was first published in the February 1929 issue of Weird Tales.
The first "Star Kings" story was cover-featured on the September 1947 issue of Amazing Stories.
Hamilton's novella The Daughter of Thor was the cover story for the August 1942 issue of Fantastic Adventures.
Hamilton's short novel Starman Come Home, the cover story in the September 1954 issue of Universe Science Fiction, was published in book form as The Sun Smasher five years later.
Hamilton's novella Last Call for Doomsday!, written for Imagination under the house name "S. M. Tenneshaw", has never been included in an authorized Hamilton collection.
Hamilton's short novel Fugitive from the Stars, cover-featured on the December 1958 issue of Imagination, was revised and published in an Ace Double in 1965.

Edmond Moore Hamilton (October 21, 1904 – February 1, 1977)[1] was an American writer of science fiction during the mid-twentieth century.[2] He is known for writing most of the Captain Future stories.

  1. ^ "FamilySearch, Edmond Hamilton, February 1977". United States Social Security Death Index. n.d. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  2. ^ Estep, Larry (n.d.). "Edmond Hamilton". Pulpgen.com. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2006. The peak of Hamilton's popularity probably came in the 1920s and 1930s where he proved as popular with the readers of Weird Tales as such prominent authors as Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft.