Hamilton adopted the later strategy hence his emphasis on mood. He presented his ideas starkly without “pause or apology”. For Stableford, the persistent theme in Hamilton’s work is a “concern with morality and the vanity of human wishes”. His romantic themes and ideas hide a disappointment and distaste “for the immediate and ordinary”.īrackett, along with Ray Bradbury, made the elements of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars even more extreme. But the most exciting possibilities and imaginative concepts undercut the masquerade of plausibility an author has to create.Ī writer has two ways around this: stay with core ideas that can be most effectively disguised or “exchange subtlety for deliberate and flamboyant overstatement” – adopt a moody, token disguise that serves the purpose of the moment. On the one hand, it pretends to believe the worlds it depicts could or might happen in a natural world. Stableford addresses the central problem that sf has in its fantasies. Stableford notes they were the last of the writers who got their start in pulp science fiction, a tradition distinct from the one fostered by John W.
Hamilton died in 1977 and Brackett died in 1978, and the occasion of this appreciation was the publication, by Del Rey, of best-of collections for both.
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