Edna Mayne Hull

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Edna Mayne Hull (born May 1, 1905 in Brandon , Manitoba , Canada , † January 20, 1975 ) was a Canadian-American science fiction writer.

Life

Hull was the daughter of journalist John Thomas Hull and Jane, née Moss. After college, she worked for three years as the private secretary for farm leader Henry Wise Wood , president of the United Farmers of Alberta . She then worked as a magazine editor and newspaper correspondent. In 1939 she married Alfred Elton van Vogt , then budding science fiction author - two months later his first SF story appeared in Astounding magazine . Through her husband, Hull also came to science fiction and wrote several short stories and two novels alone and occasionally with her husband. The short stories and episodes of novels appeared mainly in Astounding and Unknown Worlds .

At the Worldcon 1946 ( Pacificon I ) she was a guest of honor together with her husband.

Like her husband, she had been active in the Dianetics movement founded by the science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard since the 1950s and worked as an auditor for Scientology from 1950 to 1975 .

She died of cancer in 1975 at the age of 69.

Although AE van Vogt presented her as the author of the texts ascribed to her even after Hull's death and embellished this even further, there are reasonable doubts about Hull's authorship and the assumption that Van Vogt used his wife's maiden name as a pseudonym or that the editor by Astounding John W. Campbell began to use Van Vogt's EM Hull as a pseudonym for short stories when available texts were at times scarce and author names should appear only once in each edition. For similar reasons, Campbell himself used Don A. Stuart as a pseudonym, a modified form of Dona Stewart , his wife's maiden name.

bibliography

Novels
  • The Winged Man (1944, 1966, with AE van Vogt)
    • German: In the realm of the bird men. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 121), 1967.
  • Planets for Sale (1954, with AE van Vogt)
    • German: Stars of Power. Pabel (Utopia Grossband # 42), 1956.
Collections
  • Out of the Unknown (1948, with AE van Vogt, also as The Sea Thing and Other Stories , 1970)
Short stories
  • Rebirth: Earth (1942, with AE van Vogt, also as The Flight That Failed )
    • German: history correction. In: AE van Vogt: The great galactic. Pabel (Terra Paperback # 223), 1973.
  • The Ultimate Wish (1943, also as Abdication , with AE van Vogt)
  • Abdication (1943, with AE van Vogt)
  • Variant: The Invisibility Gambit (1971)
    • English: The Invisibility Gambit. In: AE van Vogt: The great galactic. Pabel (Terra Paperback # 223), 1973.
  • Competition (1943)
  • The Wishes We Make (1943)
  • The Patient (1943)
  • The Debt (1943)
  • The Contract (1944)
  • Enter the Professor (1945)
  • Bankruptcy Proceedings (1946)
  • The Wellwisher (1969)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At first only the spelling with initials appeared. E. Mayne Hull appeared later to distinguish it from Edith Maude Hull, another author. See letter from Campbell to Van Vogt, April 4, 1943. In: Perry Chapdelaine (Ed.): The John W. Campbell Letters: Volume II . AC Projects, 1993.
  2. ^ Isaac Walwyn: E. Mayne Hull = AE van Vogt? , January 27, 2007 (accessed March 27, 2018).
  3. ↑ Don Ketchek: E. Mayne Hull: Another View , August 1, 2007 (accessed March 27, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Hull, Edna Mayne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES E. Mayne Hull
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandon , Manitoba , Canada
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1975