T. O'Conor Sloane

Thomas O'Conor Sloane (November 24, 1851 – August 7, 1940) was an American scientist, inventor, author, magazine and book editor, educator and linguist, perhaps best known as the editor of the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, from 1929 to 1938.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

T. O'Conor Sloane (c. 1920s)
Promotional Pamphlet (c. 1920s)

Life and career

Sloane was born in New York City in 1851, eventually moving to South Orange, New Jersey while maintaining work offices in New York City.

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.[8][9][10][11] It has also been stated that Sloane held a Ph.D. in chemistry.[12]

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.[9]

Sloane's best known invention, introduced in 1878, was the Self-Recording Photometer for Gas Power – the first instrument to record mechanically on an index card the illuminating power of gas.[13][14][15][10][16] The year before, in 1877, Sloane had described a new process for determining sulphur in natural gas.[13][8][10] He also served as a scientific expert in patent lawsuits.[17]

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[18] 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.[19][20][21] A copy of Electric Toy Making for Amateurs is held by the Smithsonian Libraries[22]

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.[23][10][24][25] Sloane contributed more than two dozen articles to Scientific American.[26]

Sloane was the editor of Scientific American[8][27][28][10] and served on the editorial staff of several more 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).[29][10][8][30][31][32]

Sloane was a professor of natural sciences and higher mathematics at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.[8][9][10][33]

Sloane was a member of the New Jersey State Board of Education (1905–11) and lectured in its educational series for several years.[9][34][10] He also served as Treasurer for the American Chemical Society and wrote articles about the US mineral industry for the Journal of the American Chemical Society.[35][10]

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.[36] 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.[37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44]

Amazing Stories

Sloane was involved with Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories from the very beginning,[45][6] 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).[31][30] Sloane served as the managing editor for the first issue of Amazing Stories (April 1926)[45] and as the associate editor from the second issue (May 1926) on.[46][6][47] 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).[6][31][48][49][50][51][52][53] Of note, Sloane's managing editor at Amazing Stories was Miriam Bourne, in a time when women were particularly underrepresented in the sci-fi publishing world.[54][55] Sloane published first stories by sci-fi luminaries such as 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.[56][57][58][59][60][55][61][62][63][64] Sloane published a first sci-fi 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;[65][66][67] 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 sci-fi 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.[68][69][55][62][70] 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.[71][72][73]

Sloane published the first Professor Jameson story by Neil R. Jones, launching the series and publishing the next eleven stories. The series was among the most popular in the SF pulp magazines of the 1930s and Isaac Asimov credits it as being an influence on his own science fiction writing.[74][75][76][77][78] Frederik Pohl was also a fan of the Professor Jameson stories which became the longest surviving series in sci-fi.[79]

Sloane was the associate editor of Amazing Stories when the first Buck Rogers story, a novella, "Armageddon - 2419 A.D." by Phillip Francis Nowlan and the first space opera story, "The Skylark of Space" by E. E. "Doc" Smith were published in the August 1928 edition of Amazing Stories.[80][81] 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]. Science fiction historians Sam Moskowitz and Joe Sanders state that Sloane, while associate editor, accepted "The Skylark of Space" for publication.[82][83] As editor, Sloane published the second installment, "Skylark Three," as a three-part serial in the August to October 1930 issues of Amazing Stories.[84]

Much discussion by sci-fi 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[85][86][87] 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[71][72][88] or that of Malcolm Afford[62] and on one occasion famously losing a manuscript, that of John W. Campbell, Jr.[56][57][89] 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."[90] 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."[91] 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."[92][7] 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)...".[93] This is also treated by science fiction historian Gary Westfahl, writing in DePauw University's journal Science Fiction Studies [94]

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.[62][78] Leo Morey was a prodigious producer of cover art for Amazing Stories; Hans Waldemar Wessolowski (Wesso) also produced cover art for the magazine.[78]

Sloane 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."[62][95]

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.[96][97][98][99][100][78] 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.[96] It was not until the high-altitude and centrifuge tests of the late 1950s that this question was answered.[96]

Gernsback and Sloane had a long and productive working relationship that began well before Amazing Stories and continued through to Gernsback's departure from the magazine.[101][102][103] Gernsback and Sloane required that the science fiction stories published in Amazing Stories be scientifically authentic and Sloane made sure that they were.[104][105][106][107][108] It is thought that Sloane 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.[109]

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.[48][110][111][112]

Amazing Stories Quarterly

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.[113] 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 and Milton Wolf regard to be among the best and most important early pulp science fiction novels.[114][115][116]

2014 Retro Hugo Award

Sloane was nominated for the 2014 Retro Hugo Award in the Best Editor, Short Form award category but fell below the nominations cutoff.[117]

Family

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).[118][119] 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.[120][121][122] 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.[123]

Death

Sloane died in 1940 in South Orange, New Jersey.[16]

Bibliography
  • 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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