H. L. Gold
Horace Leonard Gold ( born April 26, 1914 in Montreal, Canada, † 21 February 1996 in Laguna Beach, Florida) was an American science fiction author and editor. He usually published as HL Gold, but also as CC Campbell, Clyde C. Campbell, Clyde Crane Campbell, Dudley Dell, Horace L. Gold.
Life
Horace L. Gold's parents moved to the USA, as the Canadian-born son was two years old. He had dual citizenship, lived in the Bronx, New York City, and in Providence, Rhode Iceland.
Although actually Canadians, about thirty, flat-footed and father of a newborn child, he was drafted into the U.S. Army still in 1944 and served until 1946. Horace L. Gold suffered as a result of war trauma to a growing agoraphobia, so that he in 1961 after a series retired from disease and a serious car crash in retirement.
Gold has been married twice and has a son from his first marriage.
He died in 1996 from arteriosclerosis.
Author and editor
His first short stories he published the mid-1930s, starting with Inflexible, 1934 appeared in Astounding. He successfully was with stories like Trouble with Water and A Matter of Form (both 1939). In the years 1939-1941 he was co-editor of three SF magazines, Captain Future, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Startling Stories. He then worked for DC Comics, where he wrote texts for publication series such as Batman, Superman, Superboy, Boy Commandos and Wonder Woman.
Influential he was at his post as the first editor of the SF magazine Galaxy, with whom he co-determined decisively the development of the genre in the years 1950 to 1961, new currents forced. Galaxy focused less than other magazines on technology and hardware, but opened the genre for sociological and psychological topics, even for humor and satire. Gold also benefited from the fact that increasingly turned away at that time authors of his competitor John W. Campbell, because the enthusiasm of the market leader for Dianetics to many seemed strange. In addition, gold paid better. He was from 1953 to 1955 besides the editor of Beyond Fantasy Fiction, a short-lived sister magazine of Galaxy, which focused more on fantasy. In addition, he was from 1959 to 1961 editor of the science fiction magazine If.
In 1953 he received a Hugo for his services as editor.