One of his best known Superman stories was "Superman Under the Red Sun," which has numerous elements in common with his 1951 novel City at World's End. In 1946, Hamilton began writing for DC Comics, in particular stories about their principal characters Superman and Batman.
He was involved in the Mañana Literary Society and was one of the members lightly caricatured (as Joe Henderson) in Anthony Boucher's Rocket to the Morgue.Įdmond Hamilton (1940s). His story "The Island of Unreason" (May, 1933, Wonder Stories) won the first Jules Verne Prize as the best SF story of the year.
He was very popular as an author of space opera, a sub-genre he created along with E. Through the late 1920s and early 1930s, Hamilton wrote for all of the prozines then publishing, and contributed horror stories to various other magazines as well. The book compiles the following stories: "The Horror on the Asteroid," "The Accursed Galaxy," "The Man Who Saw Everything," "The Earth-Brain," "The Monster-God of Mamurth," and "The Man Who Evolved." Hamilton is credited as the author of the first hardcover compilation 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). With his wife, Leigh Brackett, he was GoH at Pacificon II, the 1964 Worldcon. Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton, 1954.Įdmond Moore Hamilton was an author of SF stories during the mid-20th century.
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