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Lance Kenniston felt the cold realization of failure as he came out of the building into the sharp chill of the Martian night. He stood for a moment, his lean, drawn face haggard in the light of the two hurtling moons. He looked hopelessly across the dark spaceport. It was a large one, for this ancient town of Syrtis was the main port of Mars. The forked light of the flying moons showed many ships docked on the tarmac—a big liner, several freighters, a small, shining cruiser and other small craft. And for lack of one of those ships, his hopes were ruined! A squat, brawny figure in shapeless. | feedboo is The World with a Thousand Moons Hamilton Edmond Moore Published 1942 Categorie s Fiction Action Adventure Science Fiction Short Stories Source http etext 32317 1 About Hamilton Edmond Moore Hamilton October 21 1904 - February 1 1977 was a popular author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-twentieth century. Born in Youngstown Ohio he was raised there and in nearby New Castle Pennsylvania. Something of a child prodigy he graduated high school and started college Westminster College New Wilmington Pennsylvania at the age of 14-but washed out at 17. His career as a science fiction writer began with the publication of the novel The Monster God of Mamurth which appeared in the August 1926 issue of the classic magazine of alternative fiction Weird Tales. 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. Hamilton would publish 79 works of fiction in Weird Tales between 1926 and 1948 making him one of the most prolific of the magazine s contributors only Seabury Quinn and August Derleth appeared more frequently . 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. Through the late 1920s and early 30s Hamilton wrote for all of the SF pulp magazines then publishing and contributed horror and thriller stories to various other magazines as well. He was very popular as an author of space opera a sub-genre he created along with . Doc Smith. His story The Island of Unreason Wonder Stories May 1933 won the first