Most of them were science fiction, which Weird Tales (since the term "science fiction" was not coined until 1930) called "weird-scientific" tales.īy the early 1930s he was one of the giants of science fiction. Flint." He sold his first story to Weird Tales in 1925, and his next forty stories thereafter. I've always been glad to say, I owe this and that to Mr. "He'd write stories about moving the Earth to Jupiter and things like that. He said in an interview with Patrick Nielsen Hayden, in 1975 (that he was profoundly influenced as a young man in the teens and early twenties by the pulp SF of Homer Eon Elint. Hamilton was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and lived with his parents across the state line in New Castle, Pennsylvania, until the 1940s, when he married Leigh Brackett.
Long on future progress, if a bit short on hard science, he imagined a vast interstellar civilization, always in danger of some cosmic catastrophe to be averted at the last instant by his little band of human and alien heroes." Jack Williamson says: "With his tales of the Interstellar Patrol, beginning with 'Crashing Suns' (1928), he was arguably the inventor of space opera. "Doc" Smith, Ph.D., Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"Įdmond Hamilton (tribute page: was the great original writer of space opera in science fiction. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Chubby, brownette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio.
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