Biografia

26 agosto 1911 · Bessemer, Michigan, Stati Uniti

13 ottobre 1974 · Chestertown, New York, Stati Uniti

Otto Oscar Binder

"Eando Binder" was a pseudonym used by Otto and his brother Earl Andrew Binder (1904-1965), hence "E" and "O".

Binder contributed a new sub-genre to science fiction: the first-person robot story.

His only daughter, Mary Lorine, died in 1967.

Binder published more than 40 books, novels and nonfiction works such as "Victory in Space," "Careers in Space," "The Moon," "The Planets," and "Riddles of Astronomy." He wrote more than 300 nonfiction articles and book reviews.

He was the founder and editor of "Space World Magazine" and wrote extensively on unidentified flying objects.

I attended night classes at three different schools, but never obtained a degree, being short too many credits at the time, also short of money. But NASA, on contracting me as a writer in 1965 for one year, to write high school educational material on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, told me this in effect gave me an honorary MS degree (for my long background in science articles and for the editorship of Space World magazine). Also, the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA offered me a post as public relations technical writer on the basis of my qualifications being roughly equivalent to a master's. I can, today, teach science in any high school if I wish, but not college. Among the various courses I took in college were advanced, quantitative, and organic chemistry, aiming for a chemical engineering degree, or advanced chemical research.