page_title: Joseph Samachson
section_title: Science fiction and pulps
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Samachson / Career / Author / Science fiction and pulps
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1952
context_page_description: Joseph Samachson was an American scientist and author, primarily of science fiction and comic books.
context_section_description: He wrote a number of science fiction works (under the pseudonym William Morrison), including two novels published in Startling Stories, the 1937 pulp title Murder of a Professor and short stories for a number of magazines, including Money from Heaven (1942). He also penned a couple of Captain Future pulp novels c.1941–1942 (under the house name "Brett Sterling"), and had work appear in the science fiction magazine Galaxy.  His young adult novel Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars was published by Gnome Press in 1954.
caption: Samachson's novella "The Dragon Army", written under his "William Morrison" byline, was the cover story in the November 1952 issue of Fantastic Adventures
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