Edmond Hamilton. The writer and his works

This author is often called one of the fathers of the genremodern science fiction. In the twenties of the last century, he was part of a small group of writers who published their works in the journal Weird Tales, which specialized in the genres of mysticism, fantasy and detective thriller. Thanks to their work, modern science fiction and detective thriller become popular and compete with mysticism, to which the reader of that time was more fond of. Cinematography also did not remain indifferent to the works of Hamilton, they were used in writing scripts for such famous films as "Star Wars: Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back", "Batman", "Superman", "Rio Bravo", "Big Dream" .

Edmond Hamilton: biography (childhood and adolescence)

In the city of Youngstown, Ohio, October 21, 1904year in the family of the artist-cartoonist son Edmond was born, who became the third child of the Hamilton family. Therefore, after his birth, the family moved to the settlement of Poland, Ohio, where Edmond's father bought a small farm. When the children grew a little, his father was lucky to find a job in the city newspaper of Newcastle of Pennsylvania, after him there in 1911 the whole family moved. Edmond Hamilton studied fine at school, which he finished early. At the age of fourteen he entered Westminster College in New Wilmington and proved himself to be a very capable and promising student at the Faculty of Physics. For successes was noted by the leadership of the educational institution, but in the third year he lost interest in studying and was expelled for the passes. Having said goodbye to the intention of devoting himself to science, Hamilton Edmond decided to try his hand at literary pursuits.

Cooperation with Weird Tales

The writer's talent of Hamilton was manifested inat the age of twenty-two, when he published his first story, "God is the Monster of Mamurat" in the journal of alternative fiction Weird Tales. Fantastic stories of the young writer were popular with the reader, and he quickly became one of the best authors of the remarkable writers' collection collected by the editor of Fairworth Wright, which also included Howard Lovecraft and Robert Howard. In twenty-two years of cooperation with this magazine, Edmond Hamilton published 79 works of art, including "The Asteroid Horror", "The Damned Galaxy", "The Man Who Saw Everything", "The Earth-Brain", "The Man Who Evolved," " Interstellar Patrol ", consisting of eight stories, the story" Who has wings. "

Cosmoopers and work with other publishers

In the late twenties and early thirties, EdmondHamilton writes for many literary magazines his science fiction stories, as well as stories in the subgenre horror thriller. In 1933, his story "The Island of Recklessness" was awarded the Jules Verne Prize by the results of the readers' vote. The period of the great economic depression in the United States influences the creativity of the author, and in the late thirties Hamilton also writes detective and criminal stories. In the forties, the writer is working on a large series of stories, intended primarily for children and adolescent readership. The main character of these fantastic stories is the superhero Captain Futur. The stories and the series, shot on them, brought to Hamilton glory and a lot of admirers. Thanks to the multi-part saga of the adventures of Captain Futher, such fantastic TV series became known as "cosmo-opera" and became very popular with the viewer.

A special place in the reader's heart was occupied byromantic works in the style of fantastic adventures, and, perhaps, the best works of the writer in this direction are the novels "Three Gliders" in 1940 and "Star Kings" in 1947. For a long time was extremely prolific and sold by the author Edmond Hamilton. The writer's bibliography includes 16 independent novels, 13 collections, short stories for several fantastic series, which were later published in the form of 13 novels and many individual stories.

Comics

Since 1946 for twenty years the author alsocollaborates with comic books and writes numerous stories for such popular characters as Superman and Batman. One of his most famous stories about Superman is "Superman under the red sun". The comic book was published in 1963 and has many common elements with Hamilton's 1951 novel The City on the Edge of the World.

Marriage and collaboration with writer Lee Douglas Brackett

On December 31, 1946 Edmond Hamilton marriedcolleague on the shop - writer Lee Brackett, who also worked in the genre of fiction. A few years later, the writer and his wife moved to Ohio. After the marriage, the author wrote some of his best works: "The Valley of Creation", "The City at the End of the World", "What Is There?" And a number of famous space novels, in particular "Star Wolf" and "The Battle for the Stars."

Although Hamilton and Lee Brackett worked side by side for a quarter of a century, they rarely wrote in co-authorship. The fruit of their official cooperation - "Stark and Star Kings" - appeared in print in 2005.

The writer died in 1977 in the city of Lancaster, California from complications after kidney surgery, leaving behind a rich artistic legacy.