John Harvey Haggard (1912-2001) was born in Missouri but immigrated to California. This railroad man was six foot three and possibly distantly related to H. R. Haggard. At seventeen he first published poetry in Science Wonder Stories as “The Planet Prince”. This was a good name for him because he was a fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter and Barsoom. Though Haggard would not transition to the heights of John W. Campbell’s stable of Golden Age greats, he was well-liked by Hugo Gernsback in the 1930s, giving him many covers at Wonder Stories. Haggard would sell to all the great early editors: Gernback, T. O’Connor Sloane, Ray A. Palmer, F. Orlin Tremaine in the days before Campbell.
After the Campbell Revolution, Haggard had to sell to the lesser magazines like Thrilling Wonder and Planet Stories as well as cheap Mystery Pulps. He was also active in fan publishing. Despite living to eighty-nine, his last sale was in 1960. Unlike some pre-Golden Agers, his work was not reprinted after this. His longest piece was “Evolution Satellite” in 1933-34, a two-part serial. His lack of novels helps explain partly why he is forgotten today. But with many of the forgotten early writers, there is much fun to be had in pre-Campbell SF.
1920s
“My Little Martian Sweetheart” (poem) (Science Wonder Stories, November 1929) – as The Planet Prince
1930s
“Advance of Science” (poem) (Wonder Stories, July 1930) – as The Planet Prince
“The Master Allegory” (poem) (Wonder Stories, July 1930) – as The Planet Prince
“Faster Than Light” (Wonder Stories, October 1930)
“An Adventure on Eros” (Wonder Stories, September 1931)
“At the End of the Spectrum” (poem) (Wonder Stories, December 1931) – as The Planet Prince
“Castaways on Deimos” (Wonder Stories, August 1933)
“Man and a Mouse” (poem) (Science Fiction Digest, October 1933) – as The Planet Prince
“Through the Einstein Line” (Wonder Stories, November 1933)
“Evolution Satellite” (Wonder Stories, December 1933 January 1934)
“An Episode on Io” (Wonder Stories, February 1934)
“Children of the Ray” (Wonder Stories, March 1934)
“Science Friction” (poem) (Fantasy Magazine, April 1934)
“The Earth Guard” (poem) (Fantasy Magazine, May 1934) – as The Planet Prince
“Cosmos – Chapter 12b At the Crater’s Core” (Part 18 of 29)(Fantasy Magazine, June 1934)
“Seven Sat With Satan” (Murder Mysteries, October 1934)
“Relativity to the Rescue” (Amazing Stories, April 1935)
“Human Ants” (Wonder Stories, May 1935)
“Lost in Space” (Astounding Stories, August 1935)
“Phantom Star” (Astounding Stories, October 1935)
“Fruit of the Moon-Weed” (Astounding Stories, November 1935)
“Human Machines” (Astounding Stories, December 1935)
“Moon Crystals” (Astounding Stories, January 1936)
“A Little Green Stone” (Astounding Stories, March 1936)
“The Smudge Pot Murders” (Detective and Murder Mysteries, October 1936)
“The Planet of No Return” (Tesseract #4-7, November 1936-February 1937)
“Denizens of Zeron” (Astounding Stories, January 1937)
“He Who Masters Time” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1937)
“Comparisons in Science Fiction” (Tesseract, March 1937)
“Renegade” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1937)
“Round About Rigel” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1937)
“Professor Oggleswog Invades Space” (Fantascience Digest, November-December 1937)
“From the Vacuum of Space” (Astounding Stories, December 1937)
“The Year of Unreason” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1938)
“The Falcon” (poem) (Fantasmagoria #4, November 1938)
“The Light That Kills” (Amazing Stories, February 1939)
“Meet the Author” (Amazing Stories, February 1939)
“Swordsman of Mars” (Cosmic Tales, Summer 1939)
“World Reborn” (Future Fiction, November 1939)
1940s
“Storm on Ceres” (Spaceways, January 1940)
“Would You?” (poem) (Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940)
“Epitaph” (Stardust, September 1940)
“Universe in Darkness” (Future Fiction, November 1940)
“The Professor Splits” (Astonishing Stories, February 1941)
“Healing Rays in Space” (Comet Stories, March 1941)
“Derelicts of Uranus” (Comet Stories, May 1941)
“Messenger to Infinity” (Science Fiction Quarterly, Winter 1942)
“Fantastic?” (Nova #3, Winter 1943-44)
“The Atomic Bomb Clue” (10-Story Detective, November 1946)
“A Badge For the Bulldog” (Ten Detective Aces, April 1947)
“Girl of the Silver Sphere” (Planet Stories, Fall 1947)
“Task of Tau” (Planet Stories, Summer 1948)
1950s
“Children of the Ray” (reprinted in Fantastic Story Quarterly, Spring 1950)
1960s
