Publisher's Synopsis
Helpless, doomed, into the graveyard of space floats the wrecked freighter Pallas. - 'The airlock's inner door then slid open and the newcomers stepped into the ship's interior, unscrewing their transparent helmets as they did so.' Edmond Moore Hamilton was an American author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-twentieth century. Edmond is often credited as the first author of the first hardcover compilation of what would eventually come to be known as the Science Fiction genre. His career as a science fiction writer began with the publication of the short story "The Monster God of Mamurth" and quickly became a central member of the remarkable group of Weird Tales writers assembled by editor Farnsworth Wright, that included H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Hamilton would publish 79 works of fiction in Weird Tales making him one of the most prolific of the magazine's contributors.
