Edmond Hamilton

Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) was a SF writer best known as a space opera and pulp novelist, and as the husband of Leigh Brackett. He also wrote for DC Comics, including Superman and Batman stories.

Names

Hamilton wrote under pseudonyms.

• Edmond Hamilton (legal name)
• Richard Wentworth (pseudonym)

Notable works

• "The Monster God of Mamurth" (Aug. 1926, Weird Tales; his first published SF story)
• "The Island of Unreason" (May 1933, Wonder Stories)
• "War of the Sexes" (Nov. 1933, Weird Tales) (man travels to the future to discover men and women at war with each other)
• "He That Hath Wings" (July 1938, Weird Tales)
• "World Without Sex" (May 1940, Marvel Tales (as Richard Wentworth)) (women try to reproduce without and eliminate men; some men set up a "natural" way of life that appeals to women)
• The Tiger Girl (1945)
• The Star of Life (1947)
• The Valley of Creation (1948)
• "What's It Like Out There?" (Dec. 1952, Thrilling Wonder Stories)
• City at World's End
• "Captain Future" series
• The Haunted Stars (1960)
• Stark and the Star Kings (2005, with Leigh Brackett)