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What's It Like Out There? and Other Stories

What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories
New York : Ace Books, 1974. –
320 p. ; 18 cm. – (Ace Book ; 88065) NUC: 78-64696
007 What’s It Like Out There?
033 The King of Shadows
057  Castaway
066 Serpent Princess
097 The Stars, My Brothers
144 Dreamer’s World
184 Twilight of the Gods
227 Sunfire!
245 The Inn Outside the World
262 The Watcher of the Ages
280 Transuranic
304 The Isle of the Sleeper
“12 classics by one of science fiction’s most distinguished authors” — Cover
What’s it Like Out There?
is a collection of the best stories from Edmond Hamilton’s remarkable 40 year career of writing Science Fiction. Featuring:
The Stars, My Brother – where a scientist awakened from a century-long slumber in the depths of space had to make a choice between his own people and an alien race.
What’s It Like out There? – when Haddon returned from the expedition to Mars, everyone wanted t know what it was like … he could never let them know.
Twilight of the Gods – myth changed to reality around a man who sought to answer the mystery of his lost identity.
And many more …
Book Reviews:

  • Locus. 166:5. October 23, 1974.
  • New York Times Book Review. 10:50. 1974.
  • Publishers Weekly. 205(25):62. June 24, 1974.

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Godenschemering en Andere Verhalen (What’s It Like Out There? and other stories)

Godenschemering en Andere Verhalen
(What’s It Like Out There? and other stories) Collection
Translator: Th. Iskra.
Publisher: Rotterdam: Scala, 1975.
Pagination: 311 p.
Series: Scala Science Fiction Reeks ; nr. 4

Godenschemering is een verzameling van de beste verhalen uit Edmond Hamilton’s opmerkelijke, veertig-jarige loopbaan als S.F.-auteur. Bijvoorbeeld:
De Sterren, Mijn Broeders – waar een geleerde, ontwaakt uit een eeuwenlange sluimer in de diepten van de ruimte, een keus moest maken tussen zijn eigen volk en een vreemd ras.
Hoe is het daar ? – toen Haddon terugkeerde van zijn expeditie van Mars, wilde iedereen weten hoe het was…Hij kon het nimmer vertellen.
Godenschemering – waarin de mythe werkelijkheid wordt voor een man die trachtte het geheim van zijn verloren identiteit op te lossen.
En vele andere
Contents:
Hoe is het Daar? (What’s It Like Out There?)
De Konig der Schaduwen (The King of Shadows)
Uitgestoten (Castaway)
Slangenprinsess (Serpent Princess)
De Sterren, Mijn Broeders (The Stars, My Brothers)
De Wereld van een Dromer (Dreamer’s World)
Godenschemering (Twilight of the Gods)
Zonnevuur (Sunfire!)
Het Herberg Buiten de Wereld (The Inn Outside the World)
De Watcher der Tijden (The Watcher of the Ages)
Transuranië (Transuranic)
Het Eiland van de Slaper (The Isle of the Sleeper)
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Wächter der Zeiten (Collection: What's It Like Out There?)

Wächter der Zeiten (Collection: What’s It Like Out There?)
Translator: Horst Hoffmann
Publisher: E. Pabel, 1980.5
Pagination: 148 p.
Series: Utopia Classics ; 17
Contents:
Wätcher der Zeiten (The Watcher of the Ages)
Sonnenfeuer (Sunfire!)
Meine Brueder sind die Sterne (The Stars, My Brothers)
Element 144 (Transuranic)
Götterdaemmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

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Meine Brüder sind die Sterne
Die Story von dem Weltraumgefrorenen
Wächter der Zeiten
Die Story des synthetischen Menschen
Götterdämmerung
Die Story vom Kampf der Äsen
Sonnenfeuer
Die Story von den Sonnenkindern
Element 144
Die Story des transuranischen Geschöpfs

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OPUS#225 Alien Earth

OPUS: #225
Title: Alien Earth
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1949
Type: novelette
“Hugh Farris, Andre and Lys Berreau are transported into a weird world of eerie plant life, where time is slowed up and the struggle to survive rages madly on!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1949, (Apr 1949, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 54-67.
  • Alien Earth and Other Stories, (1969, ed. Roger Elwood, Sam Moskowitz, publ. Macfadden Books, #75-219, $0.75, 208pp, pb, anth) Cover: Jack Faragasso
  • 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
  • Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction, (Apr 1983, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 0-374-31228-1, $12.95, xi+276pp, hc, anth)
  • The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 11, 1949, (Mar 1984, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. DAW Books, 0-87997-918-6, $3.50, 317pp, pb, anth) Cover: Michelangelo Miani
  • The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 11, 1949, (Mar 1984, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. DAW Books, 0-87997-918-6, $3.50, 317pp, pb, anth) Cover: Michelangelo Miani
  • Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction: Sixth Series, (1988, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, 0-517-65754-6, $8.95, 624pp, hc, anth)
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)
  • The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 11, 1949, (date unknown, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. DAW Books, 0-87997-918-6, $3.50, 317pp, pb, anth) Cover: Michelangelo Miani

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OPUS#224 Watcher of the Ages, The

OPUS: #224
Title: The Watcher of the Ages
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1948
Type: short story
“Many ahd sought the dead metropolis but all had been defeated by the dark jungle and darker forces within.”
“Seek not the hidden secret, the cold flame that burns forever….”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 40, no. 6, September 1948, (Sep 1948, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.20, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 68-76.  Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Humiston
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)

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