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H. L. Gold

Lifespan
1914 – 1996
Nationality
American
Active
1943 – 1959
Works held
9

H. L. Gold (1914–1996) was, as founding editor of Galaxy Science Fiction from 1950, one of the most influential figures of the field’s Golden Age. He pushed the genre away from gadgetry toward satire, sociology and psychology, drawing career-best work from Pohl, Sheckley, Bester and many more. A capable writer himself, he was legendary as an editor, exacting, opinionated, and often working from home owing to severe agoraphobia after his war service.

The works

  1. 1959
    Cover of Someone to watch over me Someone to watch over me
  2. 1958
    Cover of Never Come Midnight Never Come Midnight
  3. 1956
    Cover of Bodyguard Bodyguard
  4. 1953
    Cover of At the Post At the Post Cover of No Charge for Alterations No Charge for Alterations Cover of The Enormous Room The Enormous Room Cover of The Old Die Rich The Old Die Rich
  5. 1943
    Cover of Grifters' Asteroid Grifters' Asteroid Cover of Menace of the Mists Menace of the Mists

Wrote across

1940s1950s

Recurring themes

Social SFSpace OperaFirst ContactTime TravelColonizationPsychic PowersAdventure

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward NourseAlfred CoppelBasil WellsFrederik PohlGeorge O. SmithMarion Zimmer BradleyMurray LeinsterNelson S. Bond

Contemporaries writing in the same era

George O. SmithStephen MarloweRandall GarrettNelson S. BondBryce WaltonRobert SilverbergMurray LeinsterH. Beam PiperAlan Edward NourseAlfred Coppel

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