Edmond Hamilton

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Edmond Moore Hamilton
pen names: Alexander Blade, Robert Castle, Hugh Davidson, Will Garth, Eduard Hamilton, Brett Sterling, S. M. Tenneshaw, Robert O. Wentworth and Robert Wentworth.

born Youngstown, Ohio: 21 October 1904
died Lancaster, California: 1 February 1977

Edmond Hamilton was an American author of science fiction, horror, fantasy, crime fiction, and superhero fiction.

His first published SFF short story was The Monster God of Mamurth (1926), in Weird Tales. He would eventually publish 79 works of fiction in Weird Tales; one of their most prolific contributors, and help to popularise the classic pulp space opera genre.

He is best known for writing most of the Captain Future stories, a science fiction pulp for juvenile readers. He is another of the authors whose work has most often appeared in the queries in the SFF Chronicles Book Search forum, an indication that it is remembered with fondness.

He is noted for his novels, The Star of Life (1947), The Valley of Creation (1948), City at World's End (1951) and The Haunted Stars (1960). In this more mature phase of his works, he produced less sentimental and romantic fantasy, and his stories became more realistic and not as fantastic.

His works have themes of first contact, mad scientists, alien invasions, human experimentation, telepathy and anti-gravity.

He was married to Leigh Brackett.

A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Edmond Hamilton

Wikipedia page: Edmond Hamilton - Wikipedia
 
Ive one of his captain future novels which ii son myth read list. And im in the process of of getting a copy of his his book Star Kings which ive heard so much h about. By him Ive read his novel Doomstar which was quite a very good book. and one his Weird Tales short stories The Earth Brain which was excellent and found in the anthology The Acolytes of Cthulhu .
 
It's so long ago that I'm not sure, but I think I might have read his novel The Star of Life in an SF Book Club edition as one of the first adult books I ever read as a kid. The edition I might remember didn't have a dustjacket.

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His short story called, I think, "What's It Like Out There?" was good.
 
Hi Friends,

Can you tell me if you recognize the image in my profile pic? I found it online. I think it may be from an Edmond Hamilton story.

What do you think?
 
My reading (listening) diary, begun Jan 2019, tells me I've read The Sargasso of Space, The Legion of Lazarus, A Trace of Memory and The City at World's End. Of these, it seems I only enjoyed the last! The other three have notes that say 'pulp', incomprehensible' and 'DNF'.
 
My reading (listening) diary, begun Jan 2019, tells me I've read The Sargasso of Space, The Legion of Lazarus, A Trace of Memory and The City at World's End. Of these, it seems I only enjoyed the last! The other three have notes that say 'pulp', incomprehensible' and 'DNF'.
Alan Steele's Avengers of the Moon is Captain Future origin novel . It's pretty good. :cool:
 

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