Harry Bates (author)

Harry Bates ( born October 9, 1900 in Pittsburgh, † September 1981; actually Hiram Gilmore Bates III) was an American editor and author of science fiction.

Life

Bates worked in the 1920s, the publisher of William Clayton as editor of several Pulp Magazines. In 1930 it was decided in the publishing house to get into the popular expectant genre of science fiction. So the magazine Astounding Stories of Super Science was founded. Bates became its first editor. He also published the comic series Strange Tales and remained in these positions until March 1933, when the Clayton -Verlag went bankrupt. Astounding was later acquired by John W. Campbell, who made ​​it under the name of Astounding Science Fiction for leading SF magazine.

During his time editor wrote Bates also self - SF stories. Along with Desmond Hall, he wrote a number of quite successful stories about the space heroes Hawk Carse, the (Anthony Gilmore, sometimes HB winter ) published under a joint pseudonym. Some more short stories published in the 1930s. Its undoubtedly the best known story is Farewell to the Master ( German: Farewell to the Lord, and later The Day the Earth Stood Still ), which was published in 1940 in Astounding and on which the film The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 ( a remake released in 2008 ) is based. However, Bates received only $ 500 for the sale of film rights.

He laid claims to more value on an exciting and entertaining action than scientific correctness. In 1952 he published his novel Space Hawk, 1953, two short stories; subsequent publications are not known.

In 1960, Bates was no longer able to work due to progressive arthritis. For the rest of his life he lived on welfare.