Hello and welcome to the travel cast.

episode 440.

The travel cast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories

by strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself. I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

Got a nice long juicy one for you folks this week that I'm fairly certain you've never read

or heard of.

I don't know, this one really just grabbed me when I first read it a couple years ago,

and for whatever reason I just haven't been able to forget about it,

nor do I want to.

We bring you the Earth Brain by Edmund Hamilton.

Edmund Hamilton's career as a science fiction writer began with the publication of a short story called The Monster God of Marmouth in the August

1926 issue of weird tales.

That's right folks, we got an oldie but a goodie here.

Every now and then, you just got to take a big old swig

of some party vintage weirdness from back in the good old days.

The story in fact was written in 1932, but somehow feels more modern than that.

Hamilton had a way of doing that, much like Asimov, a lot of his writing, ideas, and creative

contributions were really before their time.

After his first couple of sales, Hamilton quickly became a central member of a remarkable weird tales supergroup

assembled by editor Farnsworth Wright that also included Peers Robert Howard and H.B.

Lovecraft.

He wrote for all the SF Pulp magazines back then and later became primarily known as the creator of the space opera sub-genro.

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