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


                             Early life
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Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he was raised there and in nearby New
Castle, Pennsylvania. Something of a child prodigy, he graduated from
high school and entered Westminster College in New Wilmington,
Pennsylvania at the age of 14, but dropped out at 17.


                           Writing career
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Edmond Hamilton's career as a science fiction writer began with the
publication of "The Monster God of Mamurth", a short story, in the
August 1926 issue of 'Weird Tales'. Hamilton quickly became a central
member of the remarkable group of 'Weird Tales' writers assembled by
editor Farnsworth Wright, that included H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E.
Howard. 'Weird Tales' would publish 79 works of fiction by Hamilton
from 1926 to 1948, making him one of the magazine's most prolific
contributors. Hamilton became a friend and associate of several 'Weird
Tales' veterans, including E. Hoffmann Price and Otis Adelbert Kline;
most notably, he struck up a 20-year friendship with close
contemporary Jack Williamson, as Williamson records in his 1984
autobiography 'Wonder's Child.' In the late 1930s 'Weird Tales'
printed several striking fantasy tales by Hamilton, most notably "He
That Hath Wings" (July 1938), one of his most popular and
frequently-reprinted pieces. Hamilton wrote one of the first hardcover
compilations of what would eventually come to be known as the science
fiction genre, 'The Horror on The Asteroid and Other Tales of
Planetary Horror' (1936). The book comprises the following stories:
"The Horror on the Asteroid", "The Accursed Galaxy", "The Man Who Saw
Everything" ("The Man With the X-Ray Eyes"), "The Earth-Brain", "The
Monster-God of Mamurth", and "The Man Who Evolved".

Through the late 1920s and early 1930s Hamilton wrote for all of the
science fiction pulp magazines then publishing, and contributed horror
and thriller stories to various other magazines as well. He was
popular as an author of space opera, a subgenre he created along with
E. E. Smith, and which earned him nicknames like “The World Wrecker”.
His story "The Island of Unreason" ('Wonder Stories', May 1933) won
the first Jules Verne Prize as the best science fiction story of the
year (this was the first science fiction prize awarded by the votes of
fans, a precursor of the later Hugo Awards). In the later 1930s, in
response to the economic strictures of the Great Depression, he also
wrote detective and crime stories. Always prolific in stereotypical
pulp magazine fashion, Hamilton sometimes saw four or five of his
stories appear in a single month in these years; the February 1937
issue of the pulp 'Popular Detective' featured three Hamilton stories,
one under his name and two under pseudonyms. In the 1940s, Hamilton
was the primary force behind the 'Captain Future' franchise, a science
fiction pulp designed for juvenile readers that won him many fans, but
diminished his reputation in later years when science fiction moved
away from space opera. Hamilton was associated with an extravagant,
romantic, high-adventure style of science fiction, perhaps best
represented by his 1947 novel 'The Star Kings.'

In 1942 Hamilton began writing for DC Comics, specializing in stories
for their characters Superman and Batman. His first comics story was
"Bandits in Toyland" in 'Batman' #11 (June-July 1942). He wrote the
short-lived science fiction series Chris KL-99 in 'Strange
Adventures', loosely based on Captain Future. He and artist Sheldon
Moldoff created Batwoman in 'Detective Comics' #233 (July 1956).
Hamilton co-created Space Ranger in 'Showcase' #15 (July-Aug. 1958)
with Gardner Fox and Bob Brown. He also wrote the well-regarded
three-part story "The Last Days of Superman" in 'Superman' #156 (Oct
1962). Hamilton was also among the first regular writers for 'Legion
of Super-Heroes', where he created Timber Wolf, the Time Trapper, and
the Legion of Substitute Heroes, among other characters. "The Clash of
Cape and Cowl" in 'World's Finest Comics' #153 (Nov. 1965) is the
source of an Internet meme in which Batman slaps Robin. Hamilton
retired from comics with the publication of "The Cape and Cowl Crooks"
in 'World's Finest Comics' #159 (August 1966).

In 1969, the Macfadden/Bartell Corporation published a collection of
short science fiction stories "Alien Earth and Other Stories"
(520-00219-075), where Hamilton's 1949 "Alien Earth" was featured
along with novelettes by Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury,
Arthur C. Clarke and others.


                     Marriage and collaboration
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Hamilton met fellow science fiction author and screenwriter Leigh
Brackett for the first time in the summer of 1940, but lost track of
her during the war years.  They met once again at the Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel, where she and Ray Bradbury invited him to the coast
in 1946. On December 31, 1946, Hamilton married her in San Gabriel,
California, and moved with her to Kinsman, Ohio. Afterward he would
produce some of his best work including 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
career, Hamilton moved away from the romantic and fantastic elements
of his earlier fiction to create some unsentimental and realistic
stories, such as "What's It Like Out There?" ('Thrilling Wonder
Stories', December 1952), his single most frequently-reprinted and
anthologized work.

Though Hamilton and Leigh Brackett worked side by side for a
quarter-century, they rarely shared the task of authorship; their
single formal collaboration, 'Stark and the Star Kings', originally
intended for Harlan Ellison's 'The Last Dangerous Visions', would not
appear in print until 2005. It has been speculated that when Brackett
temporarily abandoned science fiction for screenwriting in the early
1960s, Hamilton did an uncredited revision and expansion of two early
Brackett stories, "Black Amazon of Mars" and "Queen of the Martian
Catacombs" -- revised texts were published as the novellas 'People of
the Talisman' and 'The Secret of Sinharat' (1964).

Hamilton died in February 1977 in Lancaster, California, of
complications following kidney surgery. In the year before his death,
Toei Animation had launched production of an anime adaptation of his
Captain Future novels and Tsuburaya Productions adapted 'Star Wolf'
into a tokusatsu series; both series were aired on Japanese television
in 1978. The 'Captain Future' adaptation was later exported to Europe,
winning Hamilton a new and different fan base than the one that had
acclaimed him half a century before, notably in France, Italy and
Germany.

Joint interviews of Brackett and Hamilton by Dave Truesdale were
published in 'Tangent' (Summer 1976), and by Darrell Schweitzer in
'Amazing Stories' (January 1978), -- the latter published several
months after Hamilton's death, but conducted "much earlier", Truesdale
attributes to Schweitzer.


                Edmond Hamilton / Leigh Brackett Day
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On July 18, 2009, Kinsman, Ohio, "celebrat[ed] Edmond Hamilton Day,
honoring 'The Dean of Science Fiction' and Kinsman resident".


''Captain Future''
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# 'Captain Future and the Space Emperor' (1940)
# 'Calling Captain Future' (1940)
# 'Captain Future's Challenge' (1940)
# 'The Triumph of Captain Future' (1940), reprinted as 'Galaxy
Mission'
# 'Captain Future and the Seven Space Stones' (1941)
# 'Star Trail to Glory' (1941)
# 'The Magician of Mars' (1941)
# 'The Lost World of Time' (1941)
# 'Quest Beyond the Stars' (1942)
# 'Outlaws of the Moon' (1942)
# 'The Comet Kings' (1942)
# 'Planets in Peril' (1942)
# 'The Face of the Deep' (1943)
# 'Worlds to Come' (1943)
# 'Star of Dread' (1943)
# 'Magic Moon' (1944)
# 'The Tenth Planet' (1969)
# 'Red Sun of Danger' (1945), reprinted as 'Danger Planet'
# 'Outlaw World' (1946)


Volumes #14 ('Worlds to Come', 1943) and #17 ('Days of Creation',
1944) were written by Joseph Samachson while #20, 'The Solar Invasion'
(1946) was by Manly Wade Wellman. The main series was followed by a
set of seven novelettes from 1950-1951: "The Return of Captain
Future", "Children of the Sun", "The Harpers of Titan", "Pardon my
Iron Nerves", "Moon of the Unforgotten", "Earthmen No More" and
"Birthplace of Creation".


''Interstellar Patrol''
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A space opera sequence based on the seminal "Crashing Suns". With the
exception of "The Sun People", the stories were assembled as 'Crashing
Suns' in 1965.
# "Crashing Suns" (1928)
# '[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73442 The Star-Stealers]" (1929)
# '[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73508 Within the Nebula]' (1929)
# '[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74020 Outside the Universe]'
(1929)
# '[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73855 The Comet-Drivers]' (1930)
# "The Sun People" (1930)
# "The Cosmic Cloud" (1930)


''The Star Kings''
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A space opera sequence: the first, 'The Star Kings', is a reworking of
'The Prisoner of Zenda' while 'Return to the Stars' is a fix-up of
four stories: "Kingdoms of the Stars", "The Shores of Infinity", "The
Broken Stars" and "The Horror from the Magellanic". A crossover
between this universe and Brackett's, "Stark and the Star Kings", was
released in 2005, having originally been submitted to 'The Last
Dangerous Visions'. Two further stories in the same universe, "The
Star Hunter" (1958) and "The Tattooed Man" (1957), were reissued in
2014 as 'The Last of the Star Kings'.

#'The Star Kings' (1949), originally published in Amazing Stories in
1947, and as a paperback in 1950 under the title 'Beyond the Moon'
#'Return to the Stars' (1968)
#"Stark and the Star Kings" (2005)
#'The Last of the Star Kings' (2014)


''Starwolf''
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Interstellar adventure with mercenary Morgan Chane.
# 'The Weapon from Beyond' (1967)
# 'The Closed Worlds' (1968)
# 'World of the Starwolves' (1968)


Other novels
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title !! year !! comment
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73504 The abysmal invaders]'
1929
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73611 The life-masters]'      1929
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73428 The sea horror]'        1929
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74086 The invisible master]'
1930
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74075 The space visitors]'    1930
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74119 Evans of the Earth Guard]'
1930
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28062 The Man Who Saw the Future]'
1930
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73857 World atavism]'         1930
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28832 The Sargasso of Space]'
1931
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32847 The Door into Infinity]'
1936
'The Fire Princess'      1938
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32317 The World with a Thousand
Moons]'          1942
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69357 Forgotten world]'       1945
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69279 Come home from Earth]'
1946
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68669 Proxy Planeteers]'      1947
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69665 The knowledge machine]'
1948
'A Yank at Valhalla'     1950
'The Monsters of Juntonheim'     -       reprint of 'A Yank at Valhalla'
'Tharkol, Lord of the Unknown'   1950
'The Prisoner of Mars'   -       reprint of 'Tharkol, Lord of the
Unknown'
'City at World's End'    1951
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65817 Last Call for Doomsday!]'
1956
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65813 Citadel of the Star Lords]'
1956
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32486 The Legion of Lazarus]'
1956
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65483 The Sinister Invasion]'
1957
'The Sun Smasher'        1959
'Starman Come Home'      -       reprint of 'The Sun Smasher'
'The Star of Life'       1959
'The Man Who Missed the Moon'    -       reprint of 'The Star of Life'
'The Haunted Stars'      1960
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66843 Battle for the Stars]'
1961
'[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24870 The Stars, My Brothers]'
1962
'The Valley of Creation'         1948
'Fugitive of the Stars'          1965
'Doomstar'       1966
'The Lake of Life'       1978
2015


Collections
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* 'The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror'
(1936)
* 'Murder in the Clinic' (1946)
* 'What's It Like Out There? and Other Stories' (1974)
* 'The Best of Edmond Hamilton' (Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club,
April 1977), edited and introduced by Leigh Brackett
* 'Kaldar: World of Antares' (1998)
* 'The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Terror' (2000)
* 'Stark and the Star Kings' (2005), Leigh Brackett and Hamilton
* 'Two Worlds of Edmond Hamilton' (2008)
* 'The Sargasso of Space and Two Others' (2009)
* 'Twilight of the Gods' (2020)
* 'The Avenger from Atlantis' (2021)


Collected works
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In 2009, Haffner Press released the first two books in a program to
collect all of Hamilton's prose work. A volume (the first of six)
collecting the first four Captain Future novels also appeared at the
same time. Early in 2010, additional volumes were announced.
* 'The Metal Giants and Others, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume
One'  (2009)
* 'The Star-Stealers: The Complete Tales of the Interstellar Patrol,
The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two'  (2009)
* 'The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three'
(2010)
* 'The Reign of the Robots, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume
Four'  (2013)
* 'The Six Sleepers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Five'
* 'The Collected Captain Future, Volume One'  (2009)
* 'The Collected Captain Future, Volume Two'  (2010)
* 'The Collected Captain Future, Volume Three'  (2014)


DC Comics
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* 'Action Comics' #119, 135, 137-138, 147-148, 151, 167, 186, 189,
191, 223, 229, 234, 239, 293-294, 300-301, 303, 309, 314, 318-319,
321, 327, 329-330, 336, 338-339 (1948-1966)
* 'Adventure Comics' #144-146, 149-150, 156, 161, 167, 172, 240
(Superboy); #306-319, 321-322, 324-325, 327, 332, 334-337, 339,
341-345 (Legion of Super-Heroes) (1949-1966)
* 'Batman' #11, 38, 76-78, 83, 85-86, 88, 91, 93-95, 98-99, 101, 104,
109-112 (1942-1957)
* 'Detective Comics' #91, 124, 127, 133, 135, 158, 165, 198, 201, 203,
211, 215-217, 225-226, 231, 233-234, 241, 243, 245, 251 (1944-1958)
* 'Green Lantern' #18 (1945)
* 'Mystery in Space' #2, 4, 30, 34-35, 37-38 (1951-1957)
* 'Showcase' #15-16 (Space Ranger) (1958)
* 'Strange Adventures' #1-5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15-16, 55-56, 63, 67, 69,
72-75, 77, 79 (1950-1957)
* 'Superboy' #1, 8-9, 18, 21-22, 24-25, 27, 103-104, 106, 119-120, 123
(1949-1965)
* 'Superman' #50, 52, 57, 63-64, 68, 70-72, 74-76, 78-81, 90, 102,
105-106, 109, 119, 148, 153-159, 161, 163-164, 166-168, 171-172,
174-175, 181 (1948-1965)
* 'Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane' #15, 21, 54, 56-57 (1960-1965)
* 'Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen' #64, 66-67, 69, 71, 85 (1962-1965)
* 'World's Finest Comics' #34-35, 37-39, 41, 46, 57, 62-63, 73, 76-82,
84-86, 88-92, 94, 96, 141-153, 155-159 (1948-1966)


                              Sources
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* Moskowitz, Sam (1966). 'Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Modern
Science Fiction'. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co. .
** Reprint (1973). Westport, CT: Hyperion Press. . .
* Gombert, Richard W. (2009).
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110718052252/http://www.wildsidebooks.com/World-Wrecker-An-Annotated-Bibliography-of-Edmond-Hamilton-by-Richard-W-Gombert-40trade-pb41_p_3831.html
'World Wrecker: An Annotated Bibliography of Edmond Hamilton']. Borgo
Press imprint of Rockville, MD: Wildside. . .


                           External links
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The Collected Edmond Hamilton] (series) at Haffner Press


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