“Amazing Stories Quarterly,” Vol. 2, No. 4 (Fall, 1929). Cover art by Wesso for Edmond Hamilton’s “The Other Side of the Moon."
As a team of geologists explore deep in the Yucatan jungle, they find themselves near the ruins of an ancient Mayan temple. It is an amazing sight. But what they don’t understand about these crumbling ruins is that they were also the site of an ancient alien spaceport – a spaceport that is still active. They soon find themselves attacked by alien raiders from the dark side of the moon! One of the geologists, Richard Carson, hides in the shadows, barely escaping with his life. He watches, horrified, as his colleagues are all horribly slain, with one lone survivor, Dr. Howland, being taken prisoner by the alien beasts. Howland then finds himself with a one-way ticket back to the moon, where a lost race of turtle-like moon beings plans the eventual conquest of the Earth, a planet they had once ruled, eons in the past.
Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) began his career in 1926 as a writer for “Weird Tales.” He was a member of the remarkable group of writers assembled by “Weird Tales” editor Farnsworth Wright that included H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Hamilton became one of the magazine’s most prolific contributors, with 79 works of fiction published from 1926 to 1948.
Through the late 1920s and early 1930s Hamilton wrote for all the science fiction pulp magazines, and contributed horror and thriller stories to other magazines as well. He was the primary force behind the Captain Future franchise, a pulp designed for juvenile readers that won him many fans, but diminished his reputation in later years when science fiction moved away from space opera. Hamilton was always associated with an extravagant, romantic, high-adventure style of science fiction, perhaps best represented by his 1947 novel “The Star Kings,” about a 20th-century man flung 2000 centuries into the future where he is Prince of a Galactic Empire.
In 1942, Hamilton began writing for DC Comics specializing in stories for their characters Superman and Batman.
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“Amazing Stories Quarterly,” Vol. 2, No. 4 (Fall, 1929). Cover art by Wesso for Edmond Hamilton’s “The Other Side of the Moon."
As a team of geologists explore deep in the Yucatan jungle, they find themselves near the ruins of an ancient Mayan temple. It is an amazing sight. But what they don’t understand about these crumbling ruins is that they were also the site of an ancient alien spaceport – a spaceport that is still active. They soon find themselves attacked by alien raiders from the dark side of the moon! One of the geologists, Richard Carson, hides in the shadows, barely escaping with his life. He watches, horrified, as his colleagues are all horribly slain, with one lone survivor, Dr. Howland, being taken prisoner by the alien beasts. Howland then finds himself with a one-way ticket back to the moon, where a lost race of turtle-like moon beings plans the eventual conquest of the Earth, a planet they had once ruled, eons in the past.
Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) began his career in 1926 as a writer for “Weird Tales.” He was a member of the remarkable group of writers assembled by “Weird Tales” editor Farnsworth Wright that included H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Hamilton became one of the magazine’s most prolific contributors, with 79 works of fiction published from 1926 to 1948.
Through the late 1920s and early 1930s Hamilton wrote for all the science fiction pulp magazines, and contributed horror and thriller stories to other magazines as well. He was the primary force behind the Captain Future franchise, a pulp designed for juvenile readers that won him many fans, but diminished his reputation in later years when science fiction moved away from space opera. Hamilton was always associated with an extravagant, romantic, high-adventure style of science fiction, perhaps best represented by his 1947 novel “The Star Kings,” about a 20th-century man flung 2000 centuries into the future where he is Prince of a Galactic Empire.
In 1942, Hamilton began writing for DC Comics specializing in stories for their characters Superman and Batman.
[Source: Wikipedia]