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Everett C. Smith
An early science-fiction writer tied to the pulp-magazine era, best known for supplying the prizewinning plot behind The Metal Moon. His surviving record is slim, but the work linked to his name points to a taste for big interplanetary ideas and adventurous storytelling.
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The Metal Moon
by Roman Frederick Starzl, Everett C. Smith
About the author
Everett C. Smith is a little-documented author associated with early pulp science fiction. Publicly available book records connect his name most clearly with The Metal Moon, a story credited to Everett C. Smith and R. F. Starzl and first published in Wonder Stories Quarterly in 1932.
Project Gutenberg's notes on that story say it was based on the fourth-prize plot from an Interplanetary Plot Contest won by Everett C. Smith of Lawrence, Massachusetts. That makes him an interesting figure from the magazine culture of the period: not just a byline, but a contributor whose imaginative concept was developed into a published tale of future travel, colonization, and human change across the solar system.
Because reliable biographical information about him is scarce, it is hard to say much more with confidence about his personal life or broader career. Even so, the work attached to his name places him in the energetic world of early 20th-century speculative fiction, where bold ideas about Mars, Jupiter, and the future of humanity helped define the genre's sense of wonder.