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. 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 1965Įdmond Moore Hamilton (Octo– February 1, 1977) was an American writer of science fiction during the mid-twentieth century. 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. 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. 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.
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