Eando Binder

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Eando Binder is the pseudonym under which the two brothers Earl Andrew Binder ( 1904 - 1965 ) and Otto Binder (* 21st August 1911 in Bessemer , Michigan ; †  13. October 1974 ) science fiction novels and short stories already published. The name Eando is made up of the first letters of their first names (E and O). Her first story, The First Martian , appeared in Amazing Stories in 1932 .

The partnership lasted until around 1940, after which Otto continued to write alone. The short story collections Adam Link - Robot and Anton York, Immortal are considered to be the most important works . The Adam Link stories are remarkable because in them for the first time a robot in the first person tells of his adventures and robots are not portrayed as a threat to humanity. The title of the first story "I, Robot", published in 1939, is therefore programmatic, and it is a little irony in the history of science fiction that Isaac Asimov's best robot stories were published and much better known under this title. Asimov frankly admitted Binder's influence in his autobiographical writings, but says that the takeover of the title was against his will.

Another notable work is the novel The New Stone Age (original title: Lords of Creation ), which appeared in six episodes in a Pulp magazine in 1939 . It depicts a future world in which humanity has fallen back into barbarism because of the exploitation of natural resources and climate change - and a civilized, technological society only exists in the Antarctic.

Otto Binder also wrote comic scripts for many years, including for Superman and Captain Marvel .

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