author
Harry Bates
1900–1981
A key early voice in American science fiction, he helped shape the field as both an editor and a writer. He is still best known for "Farewell to the Master," the story that inspired the classic film The Day the Earth Stood Still.
2 Audiobooks
Under Arctic Ice
by Harry Bates
Seed of the Arctic Ice
by Harry Bates
About the author
Born Hiram Gilmore Bates III in Pittsburgh on October 9, 1900, Harry Bates became an important figure in early pulp science fiction. He worked in magazine publishing and is especially remembered for launching and editing Astounding Stories of Super-Science in 1930, a magazine that would become one of the genre's most influential homes.
As a fiction writer, Bates published stories under his own name and also used pseudonyms including H. G. Winter and A. R. Holmes. His best-known work, the 1940 story "Farewell to the Master," had a long afterlife through its adaptation into the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Though he is not as widely read today as some of his contemporaries, Bates had a lasting impact on science fiction's magazine era. His career bridged the business of pulp publishing and the imaginative storytelling that helped define the genre for generations of readers.