Robert Moore Williams born in Farmington, Missouri

Farmington, Missouri

Farmington is a city in St. Francois County located south of St. Louis in the Lead Belt region in Missouri in the United States. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population was 16,240. It is the county seat of St. Francois County. The Farmington Micropolitan Statistical Area embraces St...

, was an American writer, primarily of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

. Pseudonyms included John S Browning, H. H. Hermon, Russell Storm and E. K. Jarvis (a house name).

His first published story was Zero as a Limit, which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1937, under the pseudonym of "Robert Moore". He was a prolific author throughout his career, with his last novel appearing in 1972. His "Jongor" series was originally published in Fantastic Adventures

Fantastic Adventures

Fantastic Adventures was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1953 by Ziff-Davis. It was initially edited by Ray Palmer, who was also the editor of Amazing Stories, Ziff-Davis's other science fiction title. The first nine issues were in bedsheet format, but in June 1940...

in the 1940s and 1950s, but only appeared in book form in 1970. By the 1960s he had published over 150 stories.

Partial bibliography

• Missing: Millions in Radium (Amazing Stories Dec 1939) (1939)
• The Chaos Fighters (1955)
• Doomsday Eve (1955) bound dos-à-dos
  Dos-à-dos binding
  In bookbinding, a dos-à-dos binding is a binding structure in which two separate books are bound together such that the fore edge of one is adjacent to the spine of the other, with a shared lower board between them serving as the back cover of both...
  
   with Eric Frank Russell
  Eric Frank Russell
  Eric Frank Russell was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales, and...
  
  's Three to Conquer
• Conquest of the Space Sea (1955) bound dos-à-dos with Leigh Brackett
  Leigh Brackett
  Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American author, particularly of science fiction. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on famous films such as The Big Sleep , Rio Bravo , The Long Goodbye and The Empire Strikes Back .-Life:Leigh Brackett was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California...
  
  's The Galactic Breed
• The Blue Atom and The Void Beyond (both 1955) bound together dos-à-dos
• The Day They H-Bombed Los Angeles (1961)
• The Star Wasps (1963) bound dos-à-dos with Terry Carr
  Terry Carr
  Terry Gene Carr was a U.S. science fiction author, editor, and teacher.Terry Carr was born in Grants Pass, Oregon...
  
  's Warlord of Kor
• The Second Atlantis (1965)
• Zanthar of the many worlds (1967)
• The Bell From Infinity (1968)
• Zanthar at Moon's Madness (1968)
• Zanthar at the Edge of Never (1968)
• Zanthar at Trip's End (1969)
• When Two Worlds Meet (1970)
• Jongor of Lost Land (1970)
• The Return of Jongor (1970)
• Jongor Fights Back (1970)
• Seven Tickets to Hell (1972)

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