Book description
The sorrowful cry spread throughout the Solar System. Captain Future
and his Futuremen had been missed for months. There was little hope that
they'd ever be seen again...
A scheming scientist headed for the moon. Now was his chance to find
the Futuremen's hideaway and steal their highly guarded secrets, secrets
that could control the Universe. No one could stop him - not even the
sinister lunar creatures - now that Captain Future was dead! Edmond
Hamilton (1904-1977)
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Edmond Hamilton was raised there and in
nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. He was something of a child prodigy,
graduating from high school and undertaking his college education at
Westminster College at the young age of 14; he dropped out aged 17. A
popular science fiction writer in the mid-twentieth century, Hamilton's
career began with the publication of his short story 'The Monster God of
Mamurth' in the August 1926 issue of Weird Tales
. After the war, he wrote for DC Comics, producing stories for Batman,
Superman and The Legion of Superheroes. Ultimately, though, he was
associated with an extravagant, romantic, high-adventure style of SF,
perhaps best represented by his 1947 novel The Star Kings
. He was married to fellow SF writer Leigh Brackett from the end of 1946
until his death three decades later.
