Eando Binder is a pen-name used by two mid-20th-century science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 authors, Earl Andrew Binder (1904-1965) and his brother Otto Binder

Otto Binder

Otto Oscar Binder was an American author of science fiction and non-fiction books and stories, and comic books...

(1911-1974). The name is derived from their first initials ("E and O Binder").

Under the Eando name, the Binders wrote some published science fiction, including stories featuring a heroic robot named Adam Link

Adam Link

Adam Link is a fictional robot, made in the likeness of a man, who becomes self-aware, and the protagonist of several science fiction short stories written by Eando Binder . The stories were originally published in Amazing Stories from 1939 to 1942.In all, ten Adam Link stories were published...

. The first Adam Link story, published in 1939, is titled I, Robot

I, Robot (short story)

"I, Robot" is a science fiction short story by Eando Binder about a robot named Adam Link.It was published in the January 1939 issue of Amazing Stories, well before the related and more known book I, Robot , a collection of short stories, by Isaac Asimov...

. An unrelated collection of stories by Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...

, also entitled I, Robot

I, Robot

I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950 in an edition of 5,000 copies. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. The stories are...

, was published in 1950. The name was chosen by the publisher, against Asimov's wishes.

By 1939, Otto had taken over all of the writing, leaving Earl to act as his literary agent. Under his own name, Otto wrote for the Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel (DC Comics)

Captain Marvel is a fictional comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. Created in 1939 by artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker, the character first appeared in Whiz Comics #2...

 line of comic books published by Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics, a division of Fawcett Publications, was one of several successful comic book publishers during the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s...

(1941-1953).

Novels

• The Double Man
• The Impossible World
• Secret of the Red Spot
• Five Steps to Tomorrow
• The Cancer Machine
• The Three Eternals
• Where Eternity Ends
• Lords of Creation (1949)
• Enslaved Brains (1965)
• Menace of the Saucers (1969)
• Get Off My World (1971)
• Night of the Saucers (1971)
• Puzzle of the Space Pyramids (1971)
• The Mind from Outer Space (1972)

External links

, which also has individual entries for Earl and Otto

• Biographical information by George C. Willick, at Spacelight
• The Outer Limits Teleplay based on Eando Binders story I, Robot at imdb