The Best of Edmond Hamilton by Edmond Hamilton

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'. 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). 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. 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. Hamilton became a friend and associate of several Weird Tales veterans, including E. 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 quickly became a central member of the remarkable group of Weird Tales writers assembled by editor Farnsworth Wright, that included H. Something of a child prodigy, he graduated from high school and entered Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania at the age of 14, but washed out at 17.Įdmond 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, now a classic magazine of alternative fiction.

Early life īorn in Youngstown, Ohio, he was raised there and in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. 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 1965Įdmond Moore Hamilton (Octo– February 1, 1977) was an American writer of science fiction during the mid-twentieth century.

The Best of Edmond Hamilton by Edmond Hamilton