BALMER, Edwin

BALMER, Edwin
(1883-1959)
   US writer and editor, trained as an engineer, who wrote in a variety of genres and edited (1927-49) the magazine Red Book, which occasionally published sf. With his brother-in-law William MacHarg (1872-1951) he wrote The Achievements of Luther Trant (coll 1910), a series of 9 detective stories with borderline sf elements, notably the accurate forecasting of the lie detector; some were reprinted in Hugo GERNSBACK's AMAZING STORIES. EB is best known for his collaborations with Philip WYLIE, When Worlds Collide (1933), filmed as WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951), and the inferior After Worlds Collide (1934). In the first, Earth is destroyed in a collision with the planet Bronson Beta; in the second, escapees settle on the new planet, fight off some Asiatic communists, and prosper. EB's solo sf novel was Flying Death (1927). Other works: The Golden Hoard (1934) with Philip Wylie, a mystery thriller.

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