Edward Elmer Smith
✓ Source-basedfallingFood engineer and author (1890-1965)
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Edward Elmer Smith was an American food engineer and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera.
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A scene from the first installment of The Skylark of Space, August 1928
The serial novel Skylark Three began as Amazing Stories cover story (August 1930)
Spacehounds of IPC was also serialized in Amazing Stories.
Triplanetary was the last of Smith's 1930s novels to be serialized in Amazing Stories; his Lensman novels were published in Astounding Stories.
Smith's novelette "Lord Tedric", the cover story in the March 1954 issue of Universe Science Fiction, was novelized by Gordon Eklund nearly 25 years later.
Smith's novel The Galaxy Primes was serialized in Amazing Stories in 1959.
After E. Everett Evans died in 1958, Smith completed his unfinished novel, Masters of Space. The novel was serialized in If.Awards 2
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Gordon R. DicksonAlso won Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
Brenda MilnerAlso won William James Fellow Award
Uta FrithAlso won William James Fellow Award
Hal ClementAlso won Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
Carol S. DweckAlso won William James Fellow Award
Damon KnightAlso won Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of FameAbout this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1890 to 1965 · aged 75
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