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T. D. Hamm

1905–1994

A mid-century American science-fiction writer, she published short stories in magazines like If, Amazing Stories, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Writing as T. D. Hamm and Thelma D. Hamm, she was part of the lively fan-and-pro scene around 1950s and 1960s speculative fiction.

2 Audiobooks

Native Son

Native Son

by T. D. Hamm

The survivors

The survivors

by T. D. Hamm

About the author

Born in 1905, Thelma Hamm Evans was an American author who wrote science fiction under the names T. D. Hamm and Thelma D. Hamm. Library and bibliography records identify her as the writer behind a number of short stories that appeared in genre magazines during the 1950s and 1960s.

Her fiction was published in magazines including If, Amazing Stories, Tomorrow's Universe, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She is also remembered in science-fiction fandom sources as Thelma Evans, and bibliography records note that she later married fellow fan and writer E. Everett Evans.

She died in 1994. Though not a household name, her work belongs to the rich magazine tradition that helped shape classic American science fiction, especially through short, idea-driven stories that found readers in the pulp and digest era.