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American scientist
T. O'Conor Sloane (
c.
1920s
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c.
1920s
Thomas O'Conor Sloane
(November 24, 1851 – August 7, 1940) was an American scientist, inventor, author, editor, educator, and linguist, perhaps best known for writing
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
and as the
editor
of
Scientific American
, from 1886 to 1896 and the first
science fiction
magazine,
Amazing Stories
, from 1929 to 1938.
Life and career
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Sloane was born in
New York City
in 1851, eventually moving to
South Orange
New Jersey
while maintaining work offices in New York City.
Education
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Sloane was academically exceptional, graduating with an A.B. from the
College of St. Francis Xavier
in NYC in 1869 at only eighteen years of age. He then earned an E.M from
Columbia University
in NYC in 1872, an A.M. from the College of St. Francis Xavier in 1873, a Ph.D. in
electrical engineering
from Columbia University in 1876 and later, an LL.D. from the College of St. Francis Xavier.
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It has also been stated that Sloane held a Ph.D. in
chemistry
, although beyond his extensive professional experience in the field of chemistry there does not seem to be evidence to support this.
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Early career
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Sloane was employed as a chemist by the N.Y. Gas Light Co. in 1872 and in 1877 as chief engineer for Citizens' Gas Light Co. in
Brooklyn
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Self-recording photometer for gas power
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Sloane's best known invention, introduced in 1878, was the self-recording photometer for gas power — the first instrument to mechanically register the illuminating power of natural gas.
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He was granted a patent for the invention January 29, 1884.
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In 1877, Sloane had described a new process for determining sulphur in natural gas.
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He also served as a scientific expert in patent lawsuits.
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Works
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Sloane was the author of
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
, first published in 1892, as well as
Arithmetic of Electricity: A Practical Treatise on Electrical Calculations
Electricity Simplified: The Practice and Theory of Electricity
Questions and Answers About Electricity: A First Book for Students: Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
Electric Toy Making for Amateurs
How to Become a Successful Electrician
The Electrician's Handy Book
Practical Electricity
An Electrical Library
Elementary Electrical Calculations
A Manual of Simple Engineering Mathematics: Covering the Whole Field of Direct Current Calculations
Speed and Fun with Figures
Rapid Arithmetic: Quick and Special Methods in Arithmetical Calculation
Fortunes in Formulas for Home, Farm, and Workshop
Henley's Twentieth Century Book of Formulas, Processes and Trade Secrets
Motion Picture Projection
Liquid Air and the Liquefaction of Gases
Home Experiments in Science
Rubber Hand Stamps and the Manipulation of India Rubber
Facts Worth Knowing
and others; including translations into English of
Saint Francis of Assisi: A Biography
written by Johannes Jorgensen and
The Electric Light: Its History, Production, and Applications
by Alglave and Boulard.
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A copy of
Electric Toy Making for Amateurs
is held by the
Smithsonian Libraries
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Sloane was also a prodigious contributor to many and various scientific and other publications such as the
Encyclopædia Britannica
Annual Cyclopedia
Alden's Cyclopedia
The Catholic Encyclopedia
The Independent
The Times
newspaper (London) and
Popular Science
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Scientific American
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Sloane was the editor of
Scientific American
from 1886 to 1896,
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contributing over fifty scientific articles to the magazine during his tenure.
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Sloane also served on the editorial staff of several other popular periodicals such as
Everyday Engineering Magazine
Plumber and Sanitary Engineer
Youth's Companion
The Experimenter
(formerly,
Practical Electrics
) and
Science and Invention
(formerly,
The Electrical Experimenter
).
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Seton Hall University
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Sloane was a professor of natural sciences and higher mathematics at
Seton Hall University
in South
Orange, New Jersey
, having first joined the faculty in 1883 and teaching there non-continuously through the 1890s.
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In 1894, Sloane was elected to the Board of Trustees, while also continuing in his capacity as a member of the faculty.
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New Jersey State Board of Education
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Sloane was a member of the New Jersey State Board of Education (1905–11) and lectured in its educational series for several years.
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American Chemical Society
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Sloane served as treasurer for the
American Chemical Society
from 1882 to 1886 and wrote articles about the US mineral industry for the
Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Chemical Institute of New York
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For many years Sloane was the educational director of the Chemical Institute of New York, which provided a distance-learning course of study in chemistry. The courses were copyrighted.
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The institute advertised heavily in the periodicals of the day
(magazine ad for the Chemical Institute of New York, 1922)
, like
Popular Mechanics
Popular Science
Amazing Stories
Radio-Craft
and
The Experimenter
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Amazing Stories
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Sloane was involved with
Hugo Gernsback
's
Amazing Stories
from the very beginning,
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his editorial work at
The Experimenter
and
Science and Invention
magazines, published by Gernsback's
Experimenter Publishing
led to Sloane's involvement with
Amazing Stories
when Gernsback merged the two magazines, devoting the editorial and printing time, resources and distribution from
The Experimenter
to the newly created
Amazing Stories
and retaining Sloane to edit the magazine with Gernsback having the final say over the fiction content
(see also, history of US science fiction and fantasy magazines to 1950)
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Sloane served as the managing editor for the first issue of
Amazing Stories
(April 1926)
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and as the associate editor from the second issue (May 1926) on.
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His role in the magazine production continued to grow and in 1929 when B. A. MacKinnon purchased Experimenter Publishing then sold it to
Bernarr Macfadden
, Sloane was named editor (November 1929 issue).
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Of note, Sloane's managing editor at
Amazing Stories
was Miriam Bourne, in a time when women were particularly underrepresented in the science fiction publishing world; as well, Sloane and later,
Raymond A. Palmer
, advanced and expanded upon Gernsback's mandate for the magazine, actively publishing women SF writers, poets and science journalists, progressing the industry.
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Sloane was one of several stockholders owning significant shares in the Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc., New York, NY.
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Sloane published first stories by science fiction authors including
John W. Campbell, Jr.
Eando Binder
John Russell Fearn
S. P. Meek
John Benyon Harris
Henry Hasse
and
E. E. "Doc" Smith
and a first poem by
Frederik Pohl
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Sloane published a first science fiction story by
Howard Fast
, early work by
Neil R. Jones
Charles R. Tanner
Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
Edmond Hamilton
Harold Vincent Schoepflin
(Harl Vincent),
David H. Keller
Miles J. Breuer
Stanton A. Coblentz
George Henry Weiss
(Francis Flagg),
Alfred Johannes Olsen
(Bob Olsen) and
Leslie Francis Silberberg
(Leslie F. Stone), one of the first women writing science fiction
pulp
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and as associate editor was directly involved in the publication of first stories by
Philip Francis Nowlan
Jack Williamson
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
and many other important science fiction writers, including
Clare Winger Harris
, one of the first women writing science fiction and who is credited with being the first woman to publish stories using her own name in science fiction magazines.
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During Sloane's tenure as associate editor, the magazine published "
The Colour Out of Space
" by
H. P. Lovecraft
, in the September 1927 issue. As editor, Sloane is credited with accepting but not publishing the first science fiction story written by
Clifford D. Simak
who submitted "Cubes of Ganymede" to
Amazing Stories
early in 1931. Sloane held onto the story for years, finally returning it to Simak as being outdated.
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Sloane also managed to publish a story, "The Universal Merry-Go-Round" by Roger Bird in the April 1933 edition of
Amazing Stories
that science fiction historian
Mike Ashley
refers to as "what could arguably be called the worst story ever published in an American sf magazine....This story is so bad as to be compulsive reading, and no plot summary can do it justice."
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On the other hand, he published the only stories of the equally unknown W. K. Sonneman, who science fiction historian
Sam Moskowitz
considered to be a "writer among writers" and a "'master' of science fiction."
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Professor Jameson
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Sloane published the first
Professor Jameson
story by Neil R. Jones, "The Jameson Satellite," launching the series and publishing the next eleven stories.
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The series was among the most popular in the science fiction pulp magazines of the 1930s and
Isaac Asimov
credits it as being an influence on his own science fiction writing.
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Frederik Pohl was also a fan of the Professor Jameson stories which have become the longest surviving series in science fiction.
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Buck Rogers
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Sloane was the associate editor of
Amazing Stories
when the first
Buck Rogers
story, a novella, "
Armageddon - 2419 A.D.
" by Phillip Francis Nowlan was published in the August 1928 edition of
Amazing Stories
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By early 1929, Buck Rogers was appearing as a syndicated comic strip and inspired the creation of
Flash Gordon
John Carter of Mars
and others. "The Airlords of Han," a sequel, was published in the March 1929 issue of
Amazing Stories
. In 1960, these two novellas were combined into one novel, titled
Armageddon 2419 A.D.
(no longer included the dash in the title).
The first space opera
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Sloane was the associate editor of
Amazing Stories
when the first
space opera
, "
The Skylark of Space
" by E. E. "Doc" Smith was published in the August 1928 edition of
Amazing Stories
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Science fiction historians Sam Moskowitz and
Joe Sanders
state that Sloane, while associate editor, accepted "The Skylark of Space" for publication.
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As editor, Sloane published the second installment, "
Skylark Three
," as a three-part serial in the August to October 1930 issues of
Amazing Stories
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Smith's novel,
Spacehounds of IPC
serialized in the August, September, and October 1931 issues of the magazine, introduced the term "
tractor beam
" to the popular culture.
The scholarly octogenarian
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Much discussion by science fiction fans and historians has surrounded assigning credit during the Gernsback era to the various editors of
Amazing Stories
for publishing first works by writers during this early period of the genre, who then went on to become giants of science fiction, based on the chronology of their job title on the masthead of
Amazing Stories
. Additionally, the octogenarian Sloane
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has been criticized for routinely taking an inordinate amount of time to respond to writers anxious to hear back from
Amazing Stories
on the status of their submission, such as with Simak's work
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or that of
Malcolm Afford
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and
Raymond Z. Gallun
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and on one occasion famously losing a manuscript,
Invaders from the Infinite
by John W. Campbell, Jr. (later found, Sloane published it in
Amazing Stories Quarterly
).
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Some context provides a measure of insight regarding these matters. Science fiction historian Mike Ashley writes in
The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950
Liverpool University Press
, 2000): "Essentially Sloane was the editor. He read the new fiction and moulded the magazine's contents, leaving the gimmickry and ideas to Gernsback."
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During the subsequent transition of
Amazing Stories'
ownership, Ashley writes: "Gernsback was no longer its editor. Although Miriam Bourne was by now Managing Editor, Arthur Lynch was brought in as Editor-in-Chief. However the main job was done by Sloane. The change came with the May 1929 issue, and by the November 1929 issue Sloane was fully in charge."
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Science fiction historians
Peter Nicholls
and
John Clute
support Ashley's work in their book
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Granada
, 1979) by stating that Sloane "carried much responsibility for the actual running of the magazines [
Amazing Stories
and
Amazing Stories Quarterly
], though they were in the overall charge of, successively, Hugo Gernsback and Arthur Lynch. He succeeded to the editorship...in 1929."
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Eric Davin in
Pioneers of Wonder
(Prometheus Books, 1999) states "and T. O'Conor Sloane,
Amazing's
associate editor (who handled the actual editorial chores)...."
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Alexei Panshin
, writing in
Fantastic Stories
and with
Cory Panshin
in
SF in Dimension: A Book of Explorations
, states that Sloane had been "editor-in-fact" for Gernsback.
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This is also treated by science fiction historian
Gary Westfahl
, writing in
DePauw University
's journal
Science Fiction Studies
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Cover art
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In 1933, Sloane experimented with a series of surreal cover art for
Amazing Stories
by artist A. Sigmond which science fiction historian Mike Ashley states were revolutionary for their time but were not warmly received by the readership.
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Leo Morey
was a prodigious producer of cover art for
Amazing Stories
Hans Waldemar Wessolowski
(Wesso) also produced cover art for the magazine.
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Space travel
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Sloane's editorial essays for the March and July 1930 issues of
Amazing Stories
detail why he did not believe that space travel was possible.
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His doubt in the matter was a scientific one, believing that the pilot of a rocket ship attaining escape velocity would be crushed by the
g-force
experienced.
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It was not until the high-altitude and centrifuge tests of the late 1950s that this question was answered.
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Gernsback and Sloane
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Gernsback and Sloane had a long and productive working relationship that began in 1920
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and continued through Gernsback's departure from
Amazing Stories.
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Gernsback and Sloane believed that science fiction should promote science and technology and that the stories published in
Amazing Stories
should be as scientifically plausible as possible, with Sloane in particular emphasizing this.
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Sloane may have collaborated with Gernsback in originating the term "scientifiction" which was superseded by "science fiction" to describe this genre, as suggested in part by the first issue of
Amazing Stories
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Ziff-Davis
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In 1938, publisher
Ziff-Davis
bought the magazine and moved its production from New York City to
Chicago
, naming Raymond A. Palmer as Sloane's successor.
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Amazing Stories Quarterly
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From 1929 to 1934, Sloane was the editor of
Amazing Stories Quarterly
, which had begun publication in 1928 with Sloane serving as the associate editor, it was the companion publication to
Amazing Stories
and the successor to
Amazing Stories Annual
; it ceased production in 1934.
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Featuring a complete novel in each edition as well as short stories,
Amazing Stories Quarterly
published, particularly during the early 1930s, what science fiction historians Mike Ashley,
Brian Stableford
Milton Wolf
Robert Silverberg
and others regard to be important work in the genre and among the best early pulp science fiction novels.
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2014 Retro Hugo Award
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Sloane was nominated for the
2014 Retro Hugo Award
in the
Best Editor, Short Form
award category but fell below the nominations cutoff by one vote.
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Family
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Sloane married Isabel Mitchel, who was born (September 1852) in
Van Diemen's Land
to
John Mitchel
and
Jane "Jenny" Mitchel
; she died in childbirth (1879).
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Sloane's son,
T. O'Conor Sloane, Jr.
became a well-known photographer; another son,
John Eyre Sloane
, an airplane factory owner, married
Thomas Alva Edison
's daughter Madeleine in 1914; their four sons were Edison's only grandchildren.
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Sloane's grandson was
T. O'Conor Sloane III
, a senior editor at
Doubleday
. Sloane's grandfather was
Thomas O'Conor
, a journalist and author who established three newspapers, the
Military Monitor
, the
Shamrock
and the
Globe
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Sloane's great-great-grandson is Justin T. O'Conor Sloane, an author, publisher and the editor of
Worlds of IF
magazine
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and
Galaxy Science Fiction
magazine.
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Death
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Sloane died in 1940 in South Orange, New Jersey.
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Bibliography
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The Standard Electrical Dictionary
Arithmetic of Electricity: A Practical Treatise on Electrical Calculations
Electricity Simplified: The Practice and Theory of Electricity
Questions and Answers About Electricity: A First Book for Students: Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
Electric Toy Making for Amateurs
How to Become a Successful Electrician
The Electrician's Handy Book
Practical Electricity
An Electrical Library
Elementary Electrical Calculations
A Manual of Simple Engineering Mathematics: Covering the Whole Field of Direct Current Calculations
Speed and Fun with Figures
Rapid Arithmetic: Quick and Special Methods in Arithmetical Calculation
Fortunes in Formulas for Home, Farm, and Workshop
Henley's Twentieth Century Book of Formulas, Processes and Trade Secrets
Motion Picture Projection
Liquid Air and the Liquefaction of Gases
Home Experiments in Science
Rubber Hand Stamps and the Manipulation of India Rubber
Facts Worth Knowing
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T. O'Conor Sloane, A.B., A.M., LL.D., Ph.D. Noted Instructor, Lecturer and Author. Formerly Treasurer American Chemical Society and a practical chemist with many well known achievements to his credit. Not only has Dr. Sloane taught chemistry for years but he was for many years engaged in commercial chemistry work
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Standard chemistry course. Home course of study in practical chemistry. Lessons 12 - 16, 40. By T. O. Sloane in collaboration with J. Edmund Woods....Chemical Institute of New York, Inc., New York. 58558
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BURIED TREASURE Can Still be found in CHEMISTRY, Good Chemists Command High Salaries and you can make yourself independent for life by unearthing one of chemistry's yet undiscovered secrets.
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Editors: Hugo Gernsback - Editor: Amazing, Apr 1926 – Apr 1929. T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D. - Managing Editor: Amazing, Apr 1926. T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D. - Associate Editor: Amazing, May 1926 – Oct 1929. Wilbur C. Whitehead - Literary Editor: Amazing, Jul 1926 – Apr 1929. C. A. Brandt - Literary Editor: Amazing, Jul 1926 – Nov 1931. Miriam Bourne - Associate Editor: Amazing, Oct 1928 – Oct 1929. Arthur H. Lynch - Editor-in-Chief: Amazing, May 1929 – Jun 1929. Arthur H. Lynch - Editorial Director: Amazing, Jul 1929 – Oct 1929. T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D. - Editor: Amazing, Nov 1929 – Apr 1938. Miriam Bourne - Managing Editor: Amazing, Nov 1929 – Nov 1932. Wilbur C. Whitehead - Literary Editor: Amazing, Nov 1929 – Aug 1931.
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Upon learning that she was a woman, 'Gernsback accepted [that first story] quite amiably...Nor did T. O'Conor Sloane, dear man, have any qualms about women writers in his stable when he took over the
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editorship, never turning down any story I submitted,' as quoted in
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Frederik Pohl sold an unsolicited poem to T. O'Conor Sloane almost immediately. In fact, Pohl had the acceptance slip three hours after commencement of writing! However, it was returned when Amazing was sold to Ziff-Davis. Pohl also has the slowness record. He wrote a poem, "Elegy to a Dead Planet, Luna" in February 1935, received an acceptance in May 1936, and it finally appeared in the October 1937 Amazing.
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, magnificently white-bearded and imposing, who was the buyer for my first sale...
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W. K. Sonneman . . . and all three [stories] appeared in the Sloane-edited Amazing Stories.
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Stone, Leslie.
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Also, she made no attempt to conceal her gender. For example, early in her career, 'a Frank Paul drawing of her accompanied her story about a race of powerful alien females, 'Women with Wings' (
Air Wonder Stories
, May, 1930)…That same month…
Amazing Stories
editor T. O'Conor Sloane published Stone's, 'Through the Veil,' and, in his blurb, also referred to her as 'Miss Stone.' Her picture also accompanied three of her stories in
Wonder Stories
in 1931, 1932, and 1933 (Davin 102).
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"Book Reviews: The Humanity of Dr. Keller: Life Everlasting and Other Tales of Science, Fantasy and Horror, by David H. Keller, M.D., collected by Sam Moskowitz and Will Sykora. Avalon, Newark, New Jersey, $3.50"
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CITY
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First of all, there is W. K. Sonneman. From the day I read his first story, 'Masterminds of Venus,' I knew that here was a writer among writers. A 'master' of science fiction. I actually believe that Sonneman is every bit as good a writer as Weinbaum, with possibilities of becoming even better. One cannot express the delight at reading a story like 'Greta, Queen of Queens' in a day when fans believe that no more great stories are to be had.
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'The Jameson Satellite' eventually saw the light of day in the July 1931 Amazing Stories and was an instant hit with the readers . . . There would be twelve in all published in Amazing under editor T. O'Conor Sloane.
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He [Sloane] also has the honor of being the oldest man ever to edit a stf magazine. Born on November 24, 1851, he was 87 when he left Amazing.
Silverberg, Robert (1997).
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T. O'Conor Sloane, the scholarly octogenarian who had replaced Gernsback at the helm of Amazing Stories.
James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah, eds. (2003).
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[Note: Sloane was in his late seventies when he became the editor of
Amazing Stories
and in his mid to late eighties upon his retirement from the magazine. He died a couple of years later in August 1940.]
Ashley, Mike; Lowndes, Robert (2004).
The Gernsback Days: A Study of the Evolution of Modern Science Fiction from 1911 to 1936
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ISBN
0809510553
. Retrieved
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Science Fiction of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History
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The World of Science Fiction: 1926-1976, The History of a Subculture
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35.
ISBN
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Davin, Eric (1999).
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Gernsback's successor at
Amazing
was the aged but energetic T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph. D., son-in-law of Thomas A. Edison [
sic
]. While sharing completely Gernsback's belief that SF should promote science and technology, Sloane believed that space travel was impossible... (p. 58); Even T. O'Conor Sloane, an extreme hard science editor who wanted each story to be a schoolbook lesson, had to admit that the rules of physical science must be bent occasionally: 'To give life to science-fiction stories it is quite the accepted and acceptable thing to use what are really impossibilities and illogical to carry out the story. If the attempt was made to keep down to prosaic fact no one would read them.' (p.84)
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but they always seemed to be merely the updating of the approach to science fiction that Gernsback and T. O'Conor Sloane had in the Amazing of the twenties; that the ideal science fiction story is one that is related to known scientific facts and extrapolates from there.
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After repeated rejections, [E. E.] Smith concluded that Sloane seemed 'to have a fixed prejudice against my stuff as not being sufficiently scientific.'
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for in the 19th century science fiction had been infected by spiritualist concepts from which it has never been, and apparently will never be, able to free itself. Stone-Blackburn thinks this a good thing; I think it a bad thing, but, as the T. O'Conor Sloane, M.A., Ph.D., of SF scholarship, I am apparently one of the few materialists still alive. RDM
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