Anthony Gilmore

Anthony Gilmore is a pen name shared by the American writers Harry Bates and Desmond W. Hall. Publicly available information on the two men is limited, and details of their lives are not recorded in the sources at hand. Beyond their writing, the two served respectively as editor and assistant editor of the magazine Astounding Stories, a position that gave them a keen sense of the tastes and editorial policies of the pulp science-fiction readership of the time. Under the name Gilmore they created the Hawk Carse space-adventure series, including Hawk Carse, The Affair of the Brains, The Passing of Ku Sui and The Bluff of the Hawk. The series ran in Astounding Stories between 1931 and 1932 and was collected in book form as Space Hawk in 1952. Marked by fast-paced space adventure and a clash between good and evil, the stories are representative of early space-opera pulp science fiction.