OPUS#211 Day of Judgment

OPUS: #211
Title: Day of Judgment
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: short story
“Have you wondered about the future; about what form of life will inherits the Earth?”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 7, September 1946, (Sep 1946, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 20-27. Cover: Pete Kuhlhoff; Illust: Dolgov
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Apr 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, #1561, $2.98, xvii+334pp, hc, coll) Cover: Don Maitz
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Aug 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-25900-9, $1.95, xviii+381pp, pb, coll) Cover: H. R. Van Dongen
  • The Last Man on Earth, (Aug 1982, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Fawcett Crest / Ballantine, 0-449-24531-4, $2.95, 352pp, pb, anth) Cover: Wayne Douglas Barlowe
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1946sep-00020
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v39n07_1946-09

OPUS#209 Indestructible Man

OPUS: #209
Title: Indestructible Man
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: short story
“Death holds no threat for Phil Ryan as he dares bullets, floods and other lethal threats while battling to protect the world’s greatest secret!”–TOC
“Death holds no terror for Phil Ryan, freak of science, as he dares bullets, floods and other lethal threats while he battles to protect the greatest secret in the whole world!”

Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 28, no. 2, Spring 1946, (Apr 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Marchioni or John Norman ?

ebook: https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV28N021946Sp

OPUS#208 Dead Planet, The

OPUS: #208
Title: The Dead Planet
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: short story
“Star travelers from a distant galaxy crash on a lost world” — TOC
“Star travelers from a distant galaxy crash on a last world to confront horror and wonder – and a shocking surprise!”

Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 13, no. 3, Spring 1946, (May 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 84-89. Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Morey
  • Worlds of Tomorrow: Science-Fiction With a Difference, (1953, ed. August Derleth, publ. Pellegrini & Cudahy, $3.95, 351pp, hc, anth) Cover: Ronald Clyne
  • Worlds of Tomorrow, (1955, ed. August Derleth, publ. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 9/6, 224pp, hc, anth)
  • Worlds of Tomorrow, (Oct 1958, ed. August Derleth, publ. Berkley, #G-163, $0.35, 172pp, pb, anth) Cover: Richard Powers
  • Worlds of Tomorrow, (1963, ed. August Derleth, publ. Four Square Books, #794, 2/6, 160pp, pb, anth)
  • Exploring Other Worlds, (1963, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Collier Books, #as551, $0.95, 256pp, pb, anth)
  • Exploring Other Worlds, (1967, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Collier Books, #02311, $0.95, 256pp, pb, anth) Cover: Don Ivan Punchatz
  • Worlds of Tomorrow, (Jul 1967, ed. August Derleth, publ. Four Square Books, #1922, 3/6, 160pp, pb, anth)
  • Exploring Other Worlds, (1969, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Collier Books, #02311, $0.95, 256pp, pb, anth) Cover: Don Ivan Punchatz
  • Ghosts, Castles, and Victims: Studies in Gothic Horror, (Aug 1974, ed. Jack C. Wolf, Barbara H. Wolf, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q1997, $1.50, 576pp, pb, anth)
  • Space Stories, (Sep 1996, ed. Mike Ashley, publ. Robinson Children’s Books, 1-85487-451-9, £4.99, xii+402pp, tp, anth)
  • The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories, (Jun 1997, ed. Mike Ashley, publ. Random House, 0-679-88527-7, $9.99, xii+402pp, tp, anth) Cover: Neal McPheeters
  • Bruce Coville’s Strange Worlds, (Feb 2000, ed. Bruce Coville, publ. Avon Camelot, 0-380-80256-2, $4.99, 196pp, tp, anth) Cover: Ernie Colon

Book review:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 56. “A good one about aliens who discover the lost planet of Earth, guarded by its dead.”

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/StartlingStories-1946q1-00084
ebook: https://archive.org/details/StartlingStoriesV13N031946Spring

OPUS#203 Inn Outside the World, The

OPUS: #203
Title: The Inn Outside the World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
“The aged statesman complained that intolerance, old grudges and ambitious men plague this world eternally”–TOC
“The night over some parts of the world may indeed be a long, long night”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 6, July 1945, (Jul 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Dolgov
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Nov 1949, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, xiv+556pp, hc, anth)
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Aug 1950, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, xiv+556pp, hc, anth)
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (May 1954, ed. Oscar J. Friend, Leo Margulies, publ. Pocket, #1007, $0.25, viii + 263pp, pb, anth) Cover: E. M. Godschalk
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Jul 1954, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Pocket, #1007, $0.25, viii + 263pp, pb, anth) Cover: E. M. Godschalk
  • Most Thrilling Science Fiction, No. 14, Fall 1969
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Science Fact/Fiction, (1974, ed. Edmund J. Farrell, Thomas E. Gage, John Pfordresher, Raymond J. Rodrigues, publ. Scott Foresman and Company, 0-673-03407-0, xv+394pp, tp, anth)
  • Lost Stars 2, (Dec 2004, ed. Jean Marie Stine, publ. Renaissance E Books, 1-58873-546-X, $4.99, 249pp, ebook, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n06_1945-07_sas

OPUS#202 Deconventionalizers, The

OPUS: #202
Title: The Deconventionalizers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
“Nobody cared anything about public opinion, so -“–TOC
“When people stopped giving a hang about public opinion, they just went ahead and said and did the very strangest things!”

Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 27, no. 2, Summer 1945, (Aug 1945, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Marchioni

ebook: https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV27N021945Su

OPUS#200 Shining Land, The [BC#1]

OPUS: #200
Title: The Shining Land
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
Series: Brian Cullan (BC)
Series number: #1
“There is a strange, inseeable Elysium that exists out in the western sea, home of a great pre-human race!”
“Through the glowing, unearthly haze was an island below them – in an ocean that had no islands!”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 5, May 1945, (May 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 98pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 30-41. Cover: Pete Kuhlhoff; Illust: Dolgov

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1945may-00030
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n05_1945-05

OPUS#197 Shadow Folk, The

OPUS: #197
Title: The Shadow Folk
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1944
Type: short story
“These high, remote peaks were the last refuge for the strangest rae of humans in all the world”
“A land where we, the normal, are strange and terrible, called fearfully by Them – The Others!” — TOC
Publication History:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 1, September 1944, (Sep 1944, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 6-17. Cover: A. R. Tilburne; Illust: Dolgov

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1944sep-00006
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n01_1944-09

OPUS#196 Free-Lance of Space, The

OPUS: #196
Title: The Free-Lance of Space
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1944
Type: short story
“Only one loyality – to himself! Because of it he died with the way to live again locked in his mind”-TOC
“All that stood between mankind and the loss of a life-saving drug was Rake Allan – who hated humanity”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 18, no. 3, May 1944, (May 1944, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 212pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Malcolm Smith; Illust: Julian S. Krupa
  • Science Fiction Adventures Classics, May 1974, (May 1974, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.60, 132pp, digest, magazine), pp. 114-132. Cover: James B. Settles

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v18n03_1944-05.Ziff-Daviscape1736

OPUS#192 Exile

OPUS: #192
Title: Exile
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1943
Type: short story
“In the depth of his mind he built a world of fear – than had to live in it!”
Publications:

  • Super Science Stories, Vol. 4, no. 4, May 1943, (May 1943, ed. Alden H. Norton, publ. Fictioneers, Inc.; Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: Virgil Finlay; Illust: Morey
  • Super Science Stories (Canadian), April 1944, (Apr 1944, ed. Alden H. Norton, publ. Popular Publications, Inc.; Toronto, Canada, C$0.15, 84pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey
  • Looking Forward, (1953, ed. Milton Lesser, publ. The Beechhurst Press, $4.95, 400pp, hc, anth)
  • Looking Forward, (1955, ed. Milton Lesser, publ. Cassell & Company Ltd., 400pp, hc, anth)
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Apr 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, #1561, $2.98, xvii+334pp, hc, coll) Cover: Don Maitz
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Aug 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-25900-9, $1.95, xviii+381pp, pb, coll) Cover: H. R. Van Dongen
  • Space 7, (1981, ed. Richard Davis, publ. Hutchinson, 0-09-144350-4, £5.50, 160pp, hc, anth) Cover: David A. Hardy
  • The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 5, 1943, (Mar 1981, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. DAW Books, 0-87997-604-7, $2.75, 380pp, pb, anth) Cover: One Plus One Studio
  • Peter Davison’s Book of Alien Planets, (1983, ed. Peter Davison (Doctor Who), publ. Sparrow Books, 0-09-930880-0, £0.95, 96pp, pb, anth)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Third Series, (1984, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, 0-517-43522-5, 633pp, hc, anth) Cover: Romas
  • 101 Science Fiction Stories, (Jun 1986, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Jenny-Lynn Waugh, publ. Avenel Books, 0-517-60669-0, $7.98, 651pp, hc, anth)
  • 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories, (Sep 1996, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Barnes & Noble, 0-7607-0142-3, $7.98, xvi+544pp, hc, anth) Cover: Cheryl Knippenburg
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

ebook: BookReader
ebook: https://epdf.tips/edmond-hamilton-exile.html

OPUS#191 No-Man’s-Land of Time

OPUS: #191
Title: No-Man’s-Land of Time
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1943
Type: short story

“Ancient Assyrian warriors, a girl from olden Cyrene, a man from six hundred years in the future-all were here in this strange oasis in the Sahara, where Cronin and a Fighting French officer sought a dangerous enemy agent!”–TOC

Publications:

  • Science Fiction Stories, Vol. 3, no. 4, April 1943, (Apr 1943, ed. Robert W. Lowndes, publ. Columbia Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: Milton Luros; Illust: Lillis