Category Archives: 1950s: 1950-1959

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OPUS#239 Legion of Lazarus, The

OPUS: #239
Title: The Legion of Lazarus
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1956
Type: novella
“Being expelled from an air lock into deep space was the legal method of execution. But it was also the only way a man could qualify for -.”
Publications:

  • Imagination, Vol. 7, no. 2, April 1956, (Apr 1956, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 6-57. Cover: Malcolm Smith
  • The Legion of Lazarus, (May 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #32486, ebook)
  • The Legion of Lazarus: A Classic Tale from the Pulps, (Jun 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Wildside Press, 978-1-4344-0949-2, $6.99, 70pp, tp)
  • The Legion of Lazarus / Star Hunter, (Aug 2011, ed. Edmond Hamilton, Andre Norton, publ. Armchair Fiction (Armchair Fiction Double Novel #24), 978-1-61287-045-8, $12.95, 216pp, tp, anth)

ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltone3248632486.html
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32486

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OPUS#238 Sacrifice Hit

OPUS: #238
Title: Sacrifice Hit
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1954
Type: novelette

Story begins the following: “The message came from far away, a flutter in the ether that jumped at the speed of light, spreading and rippling and fading, but caught on Earth by one listening thing of wires and glass that changed it into a voice that spoke.”

Publications:

  • The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol. 7, no. 5, November 1954, (Nov 1954, ed. Anthony Boucher, publ. Fantasy House, Inc., $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 100-118. Cover: Chesley Bonestell
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OPUS#237 Starman Come Home

OPUS: #237
Title: Starman Come Home (Complete Novel)
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1954
Variant Title of: The Sun Smasher (by Edmond Hamilton )
Type: novella

“Was he Neil Banning, salesman for a New York publisher, or Kyle Valkar, hereditary ruler of the Old Empire? Rolf declared him The Valkar, and offered to prove his claim. There was only one drawback – it Rolf was wrong, the test meant death for Banning.”

Publications:

  • Universe Science Fiction, No. 7, September 1954, (Sep 1954, ed. Ray Palmer, Bea Mahaffey, publ. Palmer Publications, Inc., $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Malcolm H. Smith
  • Starhaven / The Sun Smasher, (1959, Edmond Hamilton, Ivar Jorgenson, publ. Ace (Ace Double #D-351), #D-351, $0.35, 146+110pp, dos, omni) Cover: Ed Emshwiller , Ed Valigursky
  • The Sun Smasher, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-1-60282-398-3, $4.00, ebook) Cover: Doug Chaffee
  • King of Stars, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni) Cover: Doug Chaffee

Reviews:

  • Review by Hans Stefan Santesson (1959) in Fantastic Universe, July 1959
  • Review by Frederik Pohl (1959) in If, November 1959

ebook:
https://archive.org/details/Universe_07_1954-09_LennyS-EXciter?q=Universe+September+1954+starman+come+home

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OPUS#236 Unforgiven, The

OPUS: #236
Title: The Unforgiven
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1953
Type: short story
“The hailed him as a hero for the one deed which he hoped to forget …”
“Adult interplanetary fiction about a hero with a guilt-complex” – Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 82
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 31, no. 1, October 1953, (Oct 1953, ed. Samuel Mines, publ. Better Publications, Inc.; Kokomo, IN, $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 76-84. Cover: Alex Schomburg
  • Science Fiction Yearbook, Number 3, (1969, ed. Helen Tono, publ. Popular Library, Inc., $0.50, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Virgil Finlay

Book review:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 82. “Adult interplanetary fiction about a hero with a guilt-complex.”

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/StartlingStories-1953oct-00076

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OPUS#235 What's It Like Out There?

OPUS: #235
Title: What’s It Like Out There?
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1952
Type: novelette
Note: original title: Colonists of Mars
“When Haddon returned from the expedition and went to visit the families of his dead buddies; they all asked …”
「　（ワンダー・ストリーズ編者者のホーニグは新鮮で独創的なアイデアに重点をおく”新方針”のせいで、エドモンド・ハミルトンの傑作を逃がすはめになる。ワンダー・ストリーズ前編集者の）ラッサーの要求するリアリズムよりもさらに迫真の筆致で、過酷な火星への決死の探検を描いている。これほどの情感とリアリズムの物語はめったになかったのだが、ホーニグは独創的でないとの判断で、この作品を採用しなかった。「火星の植民者たち」は、陽気な宇宙驚異物語を特色とする＜アスタウンディング＞にはそぐはないし、＜アメージング＞に載せるには内容が悲惨すぎたが、＜ワンダー＞にとって申し分のない作品だったはずだ。ところが、原稿はハミルトンの引き出しの最下段にしまいこまれ、それから十二年後もあとにやってようやく陽の目をみる。＜スリリング・ワンダー・ストリーズ＞の一九五二年に十二月号に、「向こうはどんなところだい？」と改題のうえ発表されたこの作品は、大きな賞賛で迎えられた。」 – マイク・アシュリー著; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史 : パルプマガジンの饗宴』（東京創元社, 2004.7） p. 109
「マインズはハミルトンの作品にふれて、こう述べている。「＜＜キャプテン・フューチャー＞＞シリーズから大きく隔たったており、別な作家の作品だとだれもが思うはずだ」。皮肉なことに、この作品は二十年近く前に同じ雑誌で没になっている。当時の編集者チャールズ・オーニグは、独創性に欠けると判断したのだ。さらに＜アメージング・ストーリーズ＞でも＜アスタウンディング・ストーリーズ＞でも陰惨だという理由で没になっている。ようやく陽の目を見たときは、宇宙の実際の恐怖を描いた、真正なリアリズムの物語だというふれこみだった」- マイク・アシュリー著 ; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史：黄金期そして革命』（東京創元社, 2015）p. 29
“Alongside his promotion of ‘The Lovers’, Mines also urged readers to check out the December 1952 Thrilling Wonder Stories, which featured ‘What’s It Like Out There?’ by Edmond Hamilton (December 1952). Mines mentions the story in the same editorial which introduced ‘The Lovers’, where he added: ‘it is so far removed from his Captain Future stories as to convince anyone that it is the work of a different writer’ – Ashley, Mike, Transformations : the story of the science-fiction magazines from 1950 to 1970, Liverpool University Press, 2005, p. 15.
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 41, no. 2, December 1952, (Dec 1952, ed. Samuel Mines, publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.25, 148pp, Pulp, magazine),  pp. 66-80. Cover: Walter Popp; Illust : Orban
  • The Best from Startling Stories, (1953, ed. Samuel Mines, publ. Henry Holt, $3.50, xii+301pp, hc, anth) Cover: Alex Schomburg
  • Startling Stories, (1954, ed. Samuel Mines, publ. Cassell & Company Ltd., 12/6, 301pp, hc, anth)
  • Moment Without Time, (Mar 1956, ed. Samuel Mines, publ. The Science Fiction Book Club [UK], #19, xii+301pp, hc, anth)
  • A Century of Science Fiction, (1962, ed. Damon Knight, publ. Simon & Schuster, $4.95, 352pp, hc, anth) Cover: H. Lawrence Hoffman
  • A Century of Science Fiction, (Jul 1962, ed. Damon Knight, publ. Simon & Schuster / SFBC, $1.90, 352pp, hc, anth) Cover: H. Lawrence Hoffman
  • A Century of Science Fiction, (1963, ed. Damon Knight, publ. Gollancz, 21/-, 352pp, hc, anth)
  • A Century of Science Fiction, (Feb 1963, ed. Damon Knight, publ. Dell, #1157, $0.75, 384pp, pb, anth)
  • Treasury of Great Science Fiction Stories, Number 2, (1965, ed. Jim Hendryx, Jr., publ. Popular Library, Inc., $0.50, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) *slightly expanded
  • Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction, (1966, ed. Terry Carr, publ. Doubleday, $3.95, 190pp, hc, anth)
  • A Century of Science Fiction, (1966, ed. Damon Knight, publ. Pan, #T19, 6/-, 446pp, pb, anth)
  • Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction, (1968, ed. Terry Carr, publ. Funk & Wagnalls, #F47, $0.95, 190pp, pb, anth) Cover: Bob Korn
  • Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction, (1968, ed. Terry Carr, publ. Funk & Wagnalls, #F47, $0.95, 190pp, pb, anth) Cover: Bob Korn
  • A Century of Science Fiction, (1971, ed. Damon Knight, publ. Gollancz, 0-575-00817-2, 349pp, hc, anth)
  • A Century of Science Fiction, (1972, ed. Damon Knight, publ. BCA – Book Club Associates, 352pp, hc, anth)
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Explorers of Space, (Apr 1975, ed. Robert Silverberg, publ. Thomas Nelson, 0-8407-6439-1, $6.95, 253pp, hc, anth) Cover: Frank Alois
  • 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 Road to Science Fiction #2: From Wells to Heinlein, (Feb 1979, ed. James Gunn, publ. Mentor / New American Library, 0-451-61859-9, $2.50, 535pp, pb, anth)
  • The Road to Science Fiction #2: From Wells to Heinlein, (Feb 1979, ed. James Gunn, publ. Mentor / New American Library, 0-451-61736-3, $2.50, 535pp, pb, anth) Cover: Paul Stinson
  • The Future in Question, (Feb 1980, ed. Joseph Olander, Martin Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, 0-449-24266-8, $2.50, 381pp, pb, anth) Cover: Richard Powers
  • Wide-Angle Lens: Stories of Time and Space, (Jul 1980, ed. Phyllis R. Fenner, publ. William Morrow, 0-688-22241-2, $8.95, 223pp, hc, anth)
  • Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Treasury, (Mar 1981, ed. Joseph Olander, Martin Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, publ. Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, 0-517-33635-9, $6.98, 786pp, hc, anth) Cover: Don Dixon
  • The Great SF Stories #14 (1952), (Jan 1986, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. DAW Books, 0-88677-106-4, $3.50, 352pp, pb, anth) Cover: Tony Roberts
  • The Road to Science Fiction Volume 2: From Wells to Heinlein, (Oct 2002, ed. James Gunn, publ. Scarecrow Press, 0-8108-4439-7, $32.50, 509pp, tp, anth)
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)
  • The Road to Science Fiction #2, (date unknown, ed. James Gunn, publ. Mentor, 0-451-61859-9, $2.75, 535pp, pb, anth) Cover: Paul Stinson
  • Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction, (date unknown, ed. Terry Carr, publ. Funk & Wagnalls, #F47, $0.95, 190pp, pb, anth) Cover: Bob Korn

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1952dec-00066

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OPUS#234 Lords of the Morning

OPUS: #234
Title: Lords of the Morning
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1952
Type: novella
“It was a nightmarish masquerade in time, but Ed Martin tried his best to turn the dream into a reality …”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 40, no. 3, August 1952, (Aug 1952, ed. Samuel Mines, publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.25, 148pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 12-47.  Cover: Emsh; Illust : Alex Schomberg

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1952aug-00012

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OPUS#232 Earthmen No More [CF#26]

OPUS: #232
Title: Earthmen No More
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1951
Type: novelette
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 26
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“When the Futuremen revived John Carney from his deep freeze, he wanted to go home – but where in space was home?”
「洗練と技巧をもって、カーティス・ニュートンの冒険に取り組んだ。新しい作品はオリジナルの長編よりもよくできており、もし＜＜キャプテン・フューチャー＞＞の冒険がこれだけだったら、登場人物たちも通常思われているよりも、もっと立派な存在として記録されることになっただろう。物語の広がりも地球規模となり、最後の三篇（中略）では、人類、生命、大宇宙の起源と本質に関する秘密が解明されてゆく」 – マイク・アシュリー著 ; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史：黄金期そして革命』（東京創元社, 2015）p. 26.
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 23, no. 1, March 1951, (Mar 1951, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc.; Springfield, MA, $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust : Orban
  • Thrilling Novels, No. 39, 1996

Reviews:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 70. “Probably the most serious in tone of all the Captain Future stories, either the early novels or the later novelettes, concerning a man of the late twentieth century revived from a deep freeze in space to face the mind-boggling marvels — and difficulties — of the far future, Well-written and thought provoking.”

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Startling_Stories_v23n01_1951-03.Better_c2c_ufikus-DPP

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OPUS#233 Birthplace of Creation [CF#27]

OPUS: 233
Title: Birthplace of Creation
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1951
Type: novelette
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 27
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“In their final adventure the Futuremen are called on to save the Universe itself from a madman’s destructive whim!”
「洗練と技巧をもって、カーティス・ニュートンの冒険に取り組んだ。新しい作品はオリジナルの長編よりもよくできており、もし＜＜キャプテン・フューチャー＞＞の冒険がこれだけだったら、登場人物たちも通常思われているよりも、もっと立派な存在として記録されることになっただろう。物語の広がりも地球規模となり、最後の三篇（中略）では、人類、生命、大宇宙の起源と本質に関する秘密が解明されてゆく」 – マイク・アシュリー著 ; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史：黄金期そして革命』（東京創元社, 2015）p. 26.
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 23, no. 2, May 1951, (May 1951, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc.; Kokomo, IN, $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Ill : Orban
  • Startling Stories (UK), No. 8, August 1952. Ill : Michael Jones
  • Starwind : Science Fiction and Fantasy. Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall, August 1976
  • Thilling Novels, No. 39, 1996

Reviews:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 71. “Last of the Captain Future series, more or less of a sequel to the earlier novel, The Quest Beyond the Stars (Captain Future, Winter, 1942), wherein the Futuremen first discovered the wondrous Birthplace from whence all matter in our universe comes into being, and to which they now return to keep a power-hungry madman from subjecting it to his destructive whims. Better written than the earlier novel, but not nearly as much fun.”

ebook: https://archive.org/details/StarwindV02n011976Autumn/page/n47

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OPUS#231 Moon of the Unforgotten [CF#25]

OPUS: #231
Title: Moon of the Unforgotten
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1951
Type: novelette
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 25
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“Curt Newton and Otho plumb the perilous secrets of the Jovian Moon Europa- where Ezra Gurney, friend of the Futuremen, has fallen prey to a mystic cult!”
「洗練と技巧をもって、カーティス・ニュートンの冒険に取り組んだ。新しい作品はオリジナルの長編よりもよくできており、もし＜＜キャプテン・フューチャー＞＞の冒険がこれだけだったら、登場人物たちも通常思われているよりも、もっと立派な存在として記録されることになっただろう。物語の広がりも地球規模となり、最後の三篇（中略）では、人類、生命、大宇宙の起源と本質に関する秘密が解明されてゆく」 – マイク・アシュリー著 ; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史：黄金期そして革命』（東京創元社, 2015）p. 26.
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 22, no. 3, January 1951, (Jan 1951, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc.; Springfield, MA, $0.25, 164pp, pulp, magazine), pp. 118-134. Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Orban
  • Startling Stories (Canada), Vol. 22, no. 3, January 1951
  • Thrilling Novels, No. 39, 1996

Contents:
Chapter 1 The Second Life 118
Chapter 2 The Inn of the Three Red Moons 122
Chapter 3 The House of Returning 126
Chapter 4 The Unforgotten 130
Reviews:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 70. “Another well-written entry in this series of shorter pieces in the long-enduring sage of Curt Newton and the Futuremen, wherein the intrepid quarter attempt to utilize a the secret humanity’s ultimate origins that lie hidden within the human brain itself.”

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/StartlingStories-1951jan-00118
ebook: https://archive.org/details/StartlingStoriesV22N03195101

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OPUS#230 Pardon My Iron Nerves [CF#24]

OPUS: #230
Title: Pardon My Iron Nerves
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1950
Type: novelette
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 24
“If you think Grag’s an insensitive robot, read his own account of getting psychoanalyzed and repairing to Pluto’s forth Moon!”
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 22, no. 2, November 1950, (Nov 1950, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 78-96. Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust : Orban
  • Startling Stories (Canada), Vol. 22, no. 2, November 1950
  • Thilling Novels, No. 49, 1996

Contents:
Chapter 1 Metal Man 78
Chapter 2 Mission to Pluto 84
Chapter 3 The Machs 87
Chapter 4 Crazy Moon 92
Reviews:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 68. “Amusing story of Captain Future’s robot pal, Grag, and the nervous breakdown he imagined he was about to suffer, caused from being in intimate contact with humans so much of the time. How he quells the revolt of the “free” mining machines on Dis, remote satellite of Pluto, is a riot.”

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/StartlingStories-1950nov-00078