Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "T. O'Conor Sloane" in English language version.
In 1886 he became editor of the Scientific American, which he continues to direct.
T. O'Conor Sloane was not a son-in-law of Thomas A. Edison. A son of T. O'Conor Sloane married a daughter of Edison. Sloane himself was an inventor, and I think he was one of the very first to receive a doctorate in electrical engineering.
But Thomas O'Conor Sloane, his managing editor—a chemistry Ph.D...
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.
W. K. Sonneman . . . and all three [stories] appeared in the Sloane-edited Amazing Stories.
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.
'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.
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.
T. O'Conor Sloane, the scholarly octogenarian who had replaced Gernsback at the helm of Amazing Stories.
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)
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.
and the Quarterly in particular published some of the best science fiction of its day.
Sloane...with a doctorate in chemistry...
Liquid Air and the Liquefaction of Gasses, by T. O'Conor Sloane, 21 & 13 d
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
The subject of book titles came up after T. O'Conor Sloane of Doubleday (who was the grandson of the man who succeeded Hugo Gernsback as editor of Amazing) suggested I prepare a book of short biographies...
After repeated rejections, [E. E.] Smith concluded that Sloane seemed 'to have a fixed prejudice against my stuff as not being sufficiently scientific.'
Other early graduates present at the Commencement include...T. O'Conor Sloane [18]'72 [School of] Mines [of Columbia College], of South Orange, N. J.,...
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
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 Amazing Stories editorship, never turning down any story I submitted,' as quoted in Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction.
The chapter also states that he used the publishing schedule of The Electrical Experimenter to cater to Amazing Stories, also taking its editor Thomas O'Conor Sloane as the latter's editor.
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.
1. Ray Palmer was just about to start, or had just started, at Ziff Davis, taking over the editorship of Amazing Stories from T. O'Conor Sloane (Palmer's first issue was the June 1938 issue).
The collection includes 16 letters from Bourne [and one letter from Sloane] to Eshbach pertaining to stories submitted for publication in Amazing Stories.
T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D., Associate Editor
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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T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D., Associate Editor
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).
