S. S. Held
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S. S. Held was a French science fiction and fantasy author known for the disaster novel The Death of Iron, which imagines a disease destroying everything made of iron or steel. In 1932 it was serialized in Hugo Gernsback
's Wonder Stories
. The original French title was La mort du fer (Paris: A Fayard & cie, [1931]).
Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback , born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourgian American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H. G...
's Wonder Stories
Wonder Stories
Wonder Stories was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, when his media company Experimenter Publishing went...
. The original French title was La mort du fer (Paris: A Fayard & cie, [1931]).