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Everett C. Smith
An early pulp science-fiction writer best remembered for co-authoring The Metal Moon, a vivid tale of deep-space exploration first published in 1932. What survives of his record gives him an air of mystery, which only adds to the charm of his work.
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The Metal Moon
by Roman Frederick Starzl, Everett C. Smith
About the author
Everett C. Smith is a little-documented American science-fiction author associated with the pulp-magazine era. The clearest surviving source tied directly to his writing is The Metal Moon, credited to Smith and Roman Frederick Starzl and published in Wonder Stories Quarterly in Winter 1932.
Project Gutenberg's text of The Metal Moon notes that the story was based on a fourth-prize winning entry in an Interplanetary Plot Contest submitted by Everett C. Smith, and it gives his address at the time as 116 East Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts. That small detail suggests he first came to print through the magazine culture that helped launch many early science-fiction writers.
Reliable biographical information beyond that is scarce, so it is safest to remember him through the work itself: a fast-moving planetary adventure about a mysterious object near Jupiter, future human societies, and social conflict on a grand scale. For readers interested in early speculative fiction, Smith's surviving credit places him among the imaginative voices who helped shape the genre's adventurous early years.