His first story, "The Monster-God of Mamurth" for Weird Tales in August 1926, which vulgarized the florid weird-science world of Abraham Merritt, only hinted at the exploits to come, though Hamilton found Science Fantasy a fertile vein, collecting this story and others in his first book, The Horror on the Asteroid & Other Tales of Planetary Horror (coll 1936), a volume which includes a vivid Horror-In-Sf tale, "The Man Who Evolved" (April 1931 Wonder Stories) (for details see Brain in a Box). With E E "Doc" Smith and Jack Williamson, he was one of the prime movers in the development of US sf, sharing with those writers in the creation and popularization of classic Space Opera as it first appeared in Pulp magazines from about 1928.
(1904-1977) US author, married to Leigh Brackett from 1946 until his death.
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