H. L. Gold

After becoming editor of Galaxy Gold wrote that as a "dazzled boy" he "discovered science fiction in 1927, at the age of 13":[2] Amazing Stories had been out for a year then, but it was Wells' War of the Worlds, sitting innocently on a Providence library shelf, that I found first.

The day he was fired from his regular job because his boss believed that a writer should not work as a busboy, Gold learned that he had made his first sale.

H. L. Gold is perhaps best known as a leading magazine editor during the American post-World War II science fiction boom.

[5][6] With Galaxy Gold created a different kind of science fiction magazine by focusing less on technology, hardware and pulp adventures.

He paid more than was common at the time and had the advantage that several talented authors had become alienated from John W. Campbell due to his enthusiasm for Dianetics.

[4] Gold lived the rest of his life in seclusion, though he published occasional short stories and guest editorials through the early 1980s.

His collection The Old Die Rich (Crown, 1955) includes "And Three to Get Ready", "At the Post", "The Biography Project" (as Dudley Dell), "Don't Take It to Heart", "Hero", "Love in the Dark" (also known as "Love Ethereal"), "Man of Parts", "The Man with English", "No Charge for Alterations", "The Old Die Rich", "Problem in Murder" and "Trouble with Water".

writer capable of creating lower and lower-middle class background," he found that the stories "are simply not up to the standards of craftsmanship" that Gold set as an editor.