HL gold

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Horace Leonard Gold (born April 26, 1914 in Montreal , Canada , † February 21, 1996 in Laguna Beach , Florida ) was an American science fiction author and editor. Mostly he published as HL Gold, but also as CC Campbell, Clyde C. Campbell, Clyde Crane Campbell, Dudley Dell, Horace L. Gold.

Life

Gold's parents moved to the United States when the Canadian-born son was two years old. He held dual citizenship and lived in the Bronx , New York City , and Providence , Rhode Island .

Although actually Canadian, over thirty, flat-footed and father of a newborn child, he was drafted into the US Army in 1944 and served until 1946. Horace L. Gold suffered from growing agoraphobia as a result of war trauma , so that he settled in 1961 after a row retired from illness and a serious car accident.

Gold was married twice and has a son from his first marriage.

He died of arteriosclerosis in 1996.

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He published his first short stories in the mid-1930s, beginning with Inflexible , which appeared in Astounding in 1934 . He was successful with stories like Trouble with Water and A Matter of Form (both 1939). From 1939 to 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 series such as Batman , Superman , Superboy , Boy Commandos and Wonder Woman .

He was influential in his post as the first editor of the SF magazine Galaxy , with which he played a key role in the development of the genre from 1950 to 1961 and pushed new trends. Galaxy focused less on technology and hardware than other magazines, but opened the genre to sociological and psychological subjects, even humor and satire. Gold also benefited from the fact that at this time more and more authors were turning away from his competitor John W. Campbell because the market leader's enthusiasm for Dianetics seemed alien to many. Plus, gold paid better. From 1953 to 1955 he was also editor of Beyond Fantasy Fiction , a short-lived sister magazine of Galaxy , whose focus was more on fantasy . He was also the editor of the science fiction magazine If from 1959 to 1961 .

Awards

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Collections
  • The Old Die Rich and Other Science Fiction Stories (1955)
  • Inside Man & Other Science Fictions: Science Fiction on the Gold Standard (2003)
  • Perfect Murders (2010)
Short stories
  • Inflexure (1934, as Clyde Crane Campbell)
  • Fog (1935, as CC Campbell)
  • Gold (1934, also as Clyde Crane Campbell, 1935)
  • No Medals (1935, as Leigh Keith)
  • Age (1935, as Clyde Crane Campbell)
  • The Avatar (1935, as Clyde C. Campbell)
  • A Matter of Form (1938)
  • Problem in Murder (1939)
  • Trouble with Water (1939)
    • English: A darn dry business. In: DR Bensen (Ed.): Straße der Verdammnis. Pabel (Terra Fantasy # 66), 1979. Also called: Trouble with the water. In: Isaac Asimov , Martin H. Greenberg (eds.): The best stories from 1939. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6727), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6727-X .
  • Hero (1939)
  • Day Off (1939)
  • Perfect Murder (1940)
  • Jewel of Mars (1940)
  • Out of the Depths (1940)
  • Black Absolute (1940)
  • Warm, Dark Places (1940)
  • Without Rocket from Earth (1941)
  • Grifters' Asteroid (1943)
  • Menace of the Mists (1943, as Richard Storey)
  • I Know Suicide (1947)
  • Love Ethereal (1951, also as Love in the Dark )
  • The Biography Project (1951, as Dudley Dell)
    • German: Don't look! In: Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander (eds.): Fireworks of the SF. Goldmann (Edition '84: The Positive Utopias # 8), 1984, ISBN 3-442-08408-3 .
  • And Three to Get Ready ... (1952)
  • The Man with English (1953)
    • German: The special case. In: Terry Carr (ed.): The super weapon. Goldmanns Weltraum Taschenbücher # 095, 1968. Also as: The man who spoke English. In: Josh Pachter (ed.): Top Science Fiction: Part Two. Heyne SF&F # 4517, 1988, ISBN 3-453-02774-4 .
  • The Old Die Rich (1953)
    • German: The old die rich. In: Lothar Heinecke (Ed.): Galaxis Science Fiction, # 11. Moewig, 1959.
  • No Charge for Alterations (1953)
  • Don't Take It to Heart (1953)
  • At the Post (1953)
  • The Enormous Room (1953, with Robert W. Krepps )
  • Man of Parts (1954)
    • German: Die Felsenfresser. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): The human farm. Heyne SF&F # 3081, 1966.
  • Bodyguard (1956, as Christopher Grimm)
  • Never Come Midnight (1958, as Christopher Grimm)
  • Personnel Problem (1958)
  • Someone to Watch Over Me (1959, with Floyd C. Gale, as Christopher Grimm)
    • German: trading in hyperspace. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Galaxy 8. Heyne SF&F # 3093, 1967.
  • What Price Wings? (1962)
    • German: What do grand pianos cost? In: Friedel Wahren , Erik Simon (ed.): Savior of Eternity: Stories between this world and the hereafter. Heyne General Series # 13485, 2001, ISBN 3-453-19923-5 .
  • Inside Man (1965)
  • The Transmogrification of Wamba's Revenge (1967)
  • The Riches of Embarrassment (1968)
    • German: The neighbor. In: Walter Ernsting, Thomas Schlück (Eds.): Galaxy 13. Heyne SF&F # 3155, 1969.
  • The Villains From Vega IV (1968, with EJ Gold)
  • That's the Spirit (1975)
Non-fiction
  • What Will They Think of Last? (1976)
Anthologies
  • Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction (1952)
  • Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction (1954)
  • Galaxy Science Fiction Omnibus (1955, also as How to Write Great Science Fiction: Working Journal and Best-known Classics , 2002)
  • The Third Galaxy Reader (1958)
  • Five Galaxy Short Novels (1958)
  • The Fourth Galaxy Reader (1959)
  • World That Couldn't Be and 8 Other SF Novelets (1959)
  • Bodyguard and 4 Other Short SF Novels from Galaxy (1960)
  • The Fifth Galaxy Reader (1961)
  • Mind Partner and 8 Other Novelets from Galaxy (1961)
  • The Sixth Galaxy Reader (1962)

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personal data
SURNAME Gold, HL
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gold, Horace L .; Gold, Horace Leonard (full name); Campbell, CC (pseudonym); Campbell, Clyde C. (pen name); Campbell, Clyde Crane (pseudonym); Dell, Dudley (pseudonym); Gold, Horace L. (pen name); Grimm, Christopher (pseudonym); Keith, Leigh (pseudonym); Storey, Richard (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1996
Place of death Laguna Beach