Edmond Hamilton

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Edmond Moore Hamilton (October 21, 1904 - February 1 1977) was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He began writing science fiction with the story "The Monster God of Mamurth" in 1928. He quickly moved on from writing Weird Tales style horror to writing space opera, a sub-genre he created along with E.E. "Doc" Smith. He wrote using several pseudonyms and, in the 1950s, was the primary force behind the Captain Future franchise.

In the mid 1940s, Hamilton became a writer for DC Comics' Superman title. One of his best known Superman stories was "Superman Under the Red Sun" which appeared in Action Comics #300 in 1963 and which has numerous elements in common with his novel The City At World's End (1951). He wrote other works for DC Comics, including the short-lived science fiction series Chris KL-99 (in Strange Adventures), which was loosely based on his Captain Future character.

During 1946, he married fellow science fiction author and screen writer Leigh Brackett. His unsentimental short stories "What's It Like Out There?" and "The Fan", ahead of their time, both set in the near future, de-romanticized space travel, in effect, criticizing much of the mythmaking of the pulp science fiction which published these and others of Hamilton's short stories.

He died in Lancaster, California, of complications following kidney surgery.

External link

[] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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