Evolution Island - Hamilton, Edmond

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Résumé :
A rejected scientist, a forbidden experiment, and an island where evolution has become a weapon: Edmond Hamilton's Evolution Island is classic pulp science fiction at full speed. When a brilliant but discredited researcher turns his theories against the world that mocked him, scientific discovery becomes a threat rather than a triumph. What begins as speculation about life, change, and biological possibility becomes a race against danger in a place where nature itself has been violently accelerated. Hamilton builds the story around one of early science fiction's great anxieties: what happens when human ambition seizes control of forces it does not fully understand. The result is a compact tale of scientific obsession, revenge, monstrous transformation, and escalating peril, written with the direct energy that made magazine science fiction a home for bold ideas and urgent adventure. Island isolation, experimental evolution, and the menace of unchecked intellect combine in a story suited to readers of vintage SF, weird science, lost-world adventure, and early pulp speculation. First published in Weird Tales in 1927, Evolution Island shows Hamilton near the beginning of a long career that would help shape space opera, cosmic adventure, and American science fiction. This Positronic edition presents an early work of speculative adventure for readers interested in classic science fiction, mad scientists, biological horror, island danger, pulp magazines, and the imaginative roots of modern genre fiction. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery....

Biographie:
Edmond Moore Hamilton (1904 - 1977) was an American writer of science fiction during the mid-twentieth century. Edmond Hamilton's career as a science fiction writer began with the publication of The Monster God of Mamurth, a short story, in the August 1926 issue of Weird Tales-now a classic magazine of alternative fiction. Hamilton 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. Weird Tales would publish 79 works of fiction by Hamilton from 1926 to 1948, making him one of the magazine's most prolific contributors. Hamilton became a friend and associate of several Weird Tales veterans, including E. Hoffmann Price and Otis Adelbert Kline; most notably, he struck up a 20-year friendship with close contemporary Jack Williamson, as Williamson records in his 1984 autobiography Wonder's Child. In the late 1930s Weird Tales printed several striking fantasy tales by Hamilton, most notably He That Hath Wings (July 1938), one of his most popular and frequently-reprinted pieces. Hamilton is wrote one of the first hardcover compilations of what would eventually come to be known as the science fiction genre, The Horror on The Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror (1936). The book compiles the following stories: The Horror on the Asteroid, The Accursed Galaxy, The Man Who Saw Everything (The Man With the X-Ray Eyes), The Earth-Brain, The Monster-God of Mamurth and The Man Who Evolved. On July 18, 2009, Kinsman, Ohio, celebrated Edmond Hamilton Day, honoring 'The Dean of Science Fiction' and Kinsman resident.

Sommaire:
Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) was an American science fiction writer whose career reached from the pulp magazine era into the later development of modern genre fiction. Often associated with space opera, cosmic adventure, and large-scale speculative storytelling, Hamilton became known for stories that moved across planets, stars, future wars, alien civilizations, strange sciences, and universe-spanning danger. His fiction helped define the sense of scale, speed, and wonder that made early magazine science fiction so popular.Hamilton published widely in the science fiction and fantasy pulps and later became an important contributor to comics and popular adventure storytelling. He wrote the Captain Future stories and many other works of interplanetary and cosmic science fiction, while also producing short fiction and novels that helped shape twentieth-century speculative adventure. Evolution Island belongs to his early magazine period, showing the bold premise, immediate danger, and imaginative force that would become hallmarks of his long career....