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Joseph Samachson

Lifespan
1906 – 1980
Nationality
American
Active
1950 – 1958
Works held
20
Reader rating
3.0★

Joseph Samachson (1906–1980) earned a Yale PhD in chemistry at twenty-three and led a career in medical research, all while writing science fiction under the name William Morrison. He contributed many stories to the pulps and digests from the late 1930s, and, remarkably, also scripted comics for DC in the 1940s, including Batman stories. His is a striking example of the scientist-author the genre often attracted.

The works

  1. 1958
    Cover of A Feast of Demons ★3.0 A Feast of Demons
  2. 1955
    Cover of Divinity Divinity Cover of Picture Bride Picture Bride Cover of Spoken For Spoken For
  3. 1954
    Cover of Bedside Manner Bedside Manner Cover of Messenger Messenger Cover of No star's land No star's land Cover of Runaway Runaway Cover of Unwelcomed Visitor Unwelcomed Visitor
  4. 1953
    Cover of Date of publication, 2083 A.D. Date of publication, 2083 A.D. Cover of Dead Man's Planet Dead Man's Planet Cover of Forgotten danger Forgotten danger Cover of Task of Kayin Task of Kayin Cover of The Model of a Judge The Model of a Judge Cover of The Weather on Mercury The Weather on Mercury
  5. 1952
    Cover of Shipping Clerk Shipping Clerk Cover of The Addicts The Addicts Cover of The Hunters The Hunters
  6. 1951
    Cover of Monster Monster
  7. 1950
    Cover of Hop O' My Thumb Hop O' My Thumb

Wrote across

1950s

Recurring themes

First ContactSocial SFSpace OperaColonizationAdventureArtificial IntelligencePsychic PowersHard SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Bryce WaltonRandall GarrettRobert SilverbergStephen MarloweAlan Edward NourseFrederik PohlGeorge O. SmithH. B. Fyfe

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Stephen MarloweRandall GarrettRobert SilverbergBryce WaltonAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperMurray LeinsterWinston K. MarksCharles L. FontenayPoul Anderson

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