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Harry Bates was born Hiram Gilmore Bates III on October 9, 1900, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Starring Michael Rennie and Jean Peters - An alien space craft, lands on Earth just after the Second World War, and in the new era of history. A mighty robot emerges from the craft, to bring an important message from the alien 'Klaatu'. Listen how, after in initially hostile reception, he tries to bring his message to the people of Earth! One of the classic Radio Theatre Productions you will want to listen to over and over again!
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Adapted to film in 1951 as The Day the Earth Stood Still. Show Excerpt d. He could almost remember verbatim his answer: "No, Gnut has neither moved nor been moved since the death of his master. A special point was made of keeping him in the position he assumed at Klaatu's death. The floor was built in under him, and the scientists who completed his derangement erected their apparatus around him, just as he stands. You need have no fears." Cliff smiled again. He did not have any fears. A moment later the big gong above the entrance doors rang the closing hour, and immediately following it a voice from the speakers called out "Five o'clock, ladies and gentlemen. Closing time, ladies and gentlemen." The three scientists, as if surprised it was so late, hurriedly washed their hands, changed to their street clothes and disappeared down the partitioned corridor, oblivious of the young picture man hidden under the table. The slide and scrape of the feet on the exhibition floor rapidly dwindled, until at last there were only the steps of the two guards walkin
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The Character who Changed Science Fiction and became the Symbol of Space Opera! By the author of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Thrill to jetting rockets and sizzling ray guns. Before Hawk Carse, during the Hugo Gernsback/Amazing Stories era of science fiction, the typical story involved reams of scientific exposition by a group of friends, one of whom invented a space ship, as they then a trip to another planet, a tour of that world's futuristic technology, a revolt or warfare of some kind involving imaginative weaponry, and sometimes a princess in need of rescue, with each invention and incident explained at length. When editor Harry Bates founded Astounding Stories of Super Science, the magazine that would eclipse Amazing Stories, and all other science fiction magazines, for the next two decades, he created Hawk Carse, the Space Hawk, as a model of the streamlined, action-oriented science fiction he envisioned writers producing for the magazine, with the scientific explanations worked in briefly into the narrative flow, rather than dominating it. Space Hawk was an immediate hit with readers, and it is easy to see why, for the interplanetary adventure never stops in this short novel that launched the series. Although Bates meant his portrayal of the pilot of Carse's space ship as an African-American to be revolutionary at a time when most minorities played only menial roles or were villains in pulp magazine fiction, the effect is marred today by stereotyped aspects to the man's character and the unfortunate choice of the name "Friday." Such was Bates' range as an author that hardly a decade later, he would pen a series groundbreaking "thought variant" stories for Astounding, including "Farewell to the Master," which became the films "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
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The First Great Space Opera Hero Returns! The classic adventures of Hawk Carse, Space Hawk, continue with the second installment of this memorable series from the pages of the legendary 1932 Astounding Science Fiction (now known as Analog). Hawk Carse came to the frontiers of space when Saturn was the frontier planet, years before law and order were brought to the empires of the far-flung planets. It was a time when the outer limits of the Solar System were being terrorized by the space pirate, Ku Sui, and there was scarcely a pioneer outpost which had not already been the victim of the deadly doctor. In this adventure Ku Sui abducts Earth's's greatest scientists and harvests their living brains in a breathtaking plot to conquer the solar system. Can even Space Hawk foil his fiendish plan? Blazing rayguns, thrilling space battles, and personal courage highlight this great short novel from the glory days of the science fiction pulps. The original magazine text, and not the censored 1950s book version.
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Harry Bates was born Hiram Gilmore Bates III on October 9, 1900, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Bates attended the Alleghany College in Meadville, from 1917 till 1918, and the University of Pennsylvania, also for a year from 1919.
At the beginning of his career, Bates worked as a clockmaker, from 1914 till 1917, and again, from 1920 till 1922.
He was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, in 1923, as well as an assistant cameraman for the Whitman-Bennett Studios, a year later.
Through his early stewardship of the seminal science fiction magazine Astounding, where he worked as an editor for the Clayton Magazines, from 1930 until 1933, and Strange Tales, from 1931 to 1933, Bates set the tone for well-written action stories with a semi-plausible scientific angle.
Coming from a varied background that included stints of clockmaking as well as newspaper reporting and camera work for a silent-movie studio, Bates was employed as an editor for an adventure magazine owned by William Clayton at the end of the 1920s, when Clayton suggested that Bates start a companion magazine to be centred on historical adventure. Bates, one-upping his boss, suggested that the magazine should be devoted instead to science-based adventure, in competition with Hugo Gernsback’s magazine Amazing Stories: Clayton accepted this proposal.
The new magazine, which Bates named Astounding, was, according to a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, “the first true of pulp magazine,” although the term science fiction was not then current, according to Bates’s recollections in Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. Amazing Stories used the term scientifiction, and Bates, in the 1991 reference work, commented that “I had as quickly as possible to suppress [that word] from the genre.”
Astounding got off the ground in January 1930, with an editorial policy that included physical action and scientific explanation as story requirements—a slant that was to be less gadget-oriented than Amazing's. Its rates were two cents a word—much higher than the rates paid by Amazing—yet Bates had trouble finding writers competent in this relatively new genre, precisely because of its newness.
Bates commented, further, that when any of those adventure writers received a rejection of a science fiction story, they generally quit the genre, since there were so few other markets available.
In addition, Bates filled out the issues of the magazine with stories he wrote himself, sometimes in collaboration with his assistant, Desmond W. Hall.
Several stories, which Bates wrote with D. W. Hall, constituted a series involving the action hero Hawk Carse, tales which today would be described as space opera. The first Hawk Carse story, “Hawk Carse” (1931), was written, Bates recalled, as an example to his fellow pulp writers of what the magazine wanted; it was so successful, though, that the two editors kept turning out more such examples.
Altogether, Bates edited thirty-four issues of Astounding before Clayton Magazines ceased operations on account of bankruptcy; the magazine was soon brought back by Street and Smith Publications, becoming a staple of the pulp era and later metamorphosing into Analog.
Another magazine Bates initiated was Strange Tales, a competitor of Weird Tales that lasted seven issues during 1931 and 1932. The folding of Clayton Magazines ended Bates’s career as a science fiction editor, but he continued to pen occasional short stories over the next twenty years.
Some of his later stories have remained known to genre readers and critics, however, and have at times been anthologized. These include “A Matter of Size” (1934), an investigation of the great-and- small theme; “Alas, All Thinking” (1935), which effectively explores the idea that technological progress might produce degeneration in human beings; and “Farewell to the Master” (1940), which involved the relationship between an alien “master” and his huge robot.
Bates was not very active in science fiction circles after that 1940s.
Bates worked at the adventure magazine, he also edited the Technocracy, for 2 years from 1935, and the Work Projects Administration (WPA) arts and writing projects.
He held the position of a story analyst for Columbia Pictures, for a year from 1958, and for a producer David O. Selznick, in 1960.
In 1964, Bates contributed an introductory essay, Editorial Number One, "To Begin", together with John W. Campbell, to A Requiem for Astounding by Alva Rogers, which examined the history of the science fiction magazine Astounding.
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Quotations:
“I called on the writers in adventure magazines of which I already was editor, coaxing them to attempt this very different new field. Almost to a man they knew no science, and to use their stories at all I had (when possible) to correct and amplify what they turned in. I gave out story ideas right and left and did enormous amounts of hurried rewriting.” - Bates explained his strategy for building a stable of writers
“The stories I wrote in collaboration with my assistant D. W. Hall during those infant years were the product of sheer necessity, to avoid filling out the magazine with worse.”