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OPUS#025 Invisible Master, The [CC#1]

OPUS: #025
Title: The Invisible Master
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
Series: Charlie Carton
Series number: #1
“A thousand alarms are pouring into Police Headquarters! The Invisible Master broods over the city! Who is He? We defy the reader to guess the secret. Even the editorial staff was astounded at the conclusion of this scientific yarn.”
“If you were to ask us which, in our opinion, is the greatest scientific detective story of the year, we certainly would pronounce the present story to be that unusual gem.
Here is a story that will keep you fascinated, not only in connection with its excellence of science, understandable by everyone, but by the fast-moving action for which this well-known author is famous.
Invisibility in this sort of story is perhaps not a new idea; but we venture to say that no one can foretell the O. Henry-like ending, which is as unexpected as it is dramatic.”
Publications:

  • Scientific Detective Monthly [v1 #4, April 1930] (25¢, 96pp+, large, cover by Paul) , pp. 300-313. Illustrated by J. Ruger.
  • The Invisible Master, (2000, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Black Dog Books,  1-928619-12-6, $6.00, 75pp, ph, coll), pp. 5-40. Cover by Tom Roberts.

ebook: http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2697
ebook: https://archive.org/details/ScientificDetectiveMonthlyV01n04193004c2cSaskiaBogof39

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OPUS#020 Cities in the Air

OPUS: #020
Title: Cities in the Air
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1929
Type: novel
“Our gunners, following the orders of the First Air Chief, were concentrating their fire on the European column’s head, there in the ocean’s green depth.” – Nov. 1929
“Now our line turned like a wheeling snake, high in the air and was rushing back upon the circle of our enemies. And as our long line of mighty cities whirled past them all our batteries were thundering.” – Dec. 1929
Magazine Appearances:

  • Cities in the Air (Part 1 of 2) (1929) – Edmond Hamilton
  • Cities in the Air (Part 2 of 2) (1929) – Edmond Hamilton

Publications:

  • Air Wonder Stories, Vol. 1, no. 5, November 1929, (Nov 1929, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publications, $0.25, 96pp, magazine), pp. 390-411. Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Frank R. Paul and unsigned.
  • Air Wonder Stories, Vol. 1, no. 6, December 1929, (Dec 1929, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publications, $0.25, 96pp, magazine), pp. 534-554. Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Frank R. Paul and unsigned.
  • The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: http://www.pulpmags.org/air_wonder_page.html
ebook: http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2610
ebook of part 1: https://archive.org/details/Air_Wonder_Stories_v01n05_1929-11
ebook of part 2: https://archive.org/details/Air_Wonder_Stories_v01n06_1929-12.Stellar_bogof39-cape1736

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OPUS#019 Hidden World

OPUS: #019
Title: The Hidden World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1929
Type: novel
“And as it appeared I could see by that inset white spot of light, that the great dazzling column was slowly turning, like a solid revolving shaft!” – Science Wonder Quarterly
“Arnold Vance and three other scientists seek to outguess a battling phenomenon, and find themselves prisoners of an Earth withing Earth!” – Fantastic Story Quarterly
Chapter 1 Blue Lights
Chapter 2 The Spheres from Below
Chapter 3 The Things fo Fleash!
Chapter 4 Down the Shaft
Chapter 5 A World of Wonders
Chapter 6 The Origin of the Hidden World
Chapter 7 How the Hidden World Evolved
Chapter 8 Intervention of Fate
Chapter 9 The Doom of a World
Publications:

  • Science Wonder Quarterly, Vol. 1, no. 1, Fall 1929, (Oct 1929, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing Corporation, $0.50, 148pp, Bedsheet, magazine), pp. 84-129, 135 Cover: Frank R. Paul;  illustrated by Frank R. Paul
  • Fantastic Story Quarterly, Vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 1950, (Apr 1950, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Best Books, Inc., $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 11-60  illustrated by Virgil Finlay
  • The Star-Stealers: The Complete Adventures of The Interstellar Patrol, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-33-2, $40.00, 754pp, hc, coll) Cover: Hugh Rankin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: http://www.haffnerpress.com/story/the-hidden-world-contents/
ebook: http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2609

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OPUS#018 Other Side of the Moon, The

OPUS: #018
Title: The Other Side of the Moon
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1929
Type: novel
Astronomers seem to be pretty well agreed that the moon is uninhabitable. But even the Lick Observatory telescope, which is the most powerful one of its kind, has naturally enough been able to see only the one side of the moon – the side that is turned to the earth. Only a trip to the moon and around it would disclose what there is on the other side.
Mr. Hamilton can be depended on to furnish an altogether novel way of reaching the moon and makes it seem so logical it seems a wonder some such method hasn’t been devised a long time ago.
“The Other Side of the Moon” raises several other interesting questions, among them being, “Who were the first inhabitants of the earth?” So many “obviously” impossible dreams have recently become real achievements, that we an almost begin to read less skeptically about cosmic travel – particularly when it is offered in as plausible a manner as it is in this story.
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories Quarterly, Vol. 2, no. 4, Fall 1929, (Oct 1929, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Experimenter Publishing Co., $0.50, 144pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: Wesso; illustrated by H. W. Wesso
  • Science Fiction Adventure Classics, No. 7, Winter 1969, (Jan 1969, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Wesso; illustrated by H. W. Wesso
  • The Star-Stealers: The Complete Adventures of The Interstellar Patrol, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-33-2, $40.00, 754pp, hc, coll) Cover: Hugh Rankin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2713
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_Quarterly_v02n04_1929-Fall.Experimenter_c2c

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OPUS#016 Abysmal Invaders, The

OPUS: #016
Title: The Abysmal Invaders
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1929
Type: novelette
“A horror out of long-dead ages crashes gigantically through the night in an avalanche of destruction and death”–TOC
“Other huge shapes galloped past, carrying annihilation and death across the town.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 13, no. 6, June 1929, (Jun 1929, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; illustrated by Rankin
  • The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v13n06_1929-06_AT-sas

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OPUS#015 Within the Nebula [IP#3]

OPUS: #015
Title: Within the Nebula
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1929
Type: novelette
Series: Interstellar Patrol
Series Number: 3
“They whirled across the platform in wild conflict.”
“The great nebula expands, threatening to engulf the entire universe in fiery destruction”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 13, no. 5, May 1929, (May 1929, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Doak, aka Hugh Rankin
  • Crashing Suns, (1965, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #F-319, $0.40, 192pp, pb, coll)
  • Crashing Suns, (Aug 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-1-4014-0319-5, $4.00, ebook, coll)
  • The Star-Stealers: The Complete Adventures of The Interstellar Patrol, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-33-2, $40.00, 754pp, hc, coll) Cover: Hugh Rankin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV13N05192905

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OPUS#014 Locked Worlds

OPUS: #014
Title: Locked Worlds
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1929
Type: novella
“On and on we sped, high above the rolling blue plains, beneath the blazing blulsh sun that was slipping down toward the horizon from the zenith … At last our progress seemed to slacken slightly, and as I raised myself from the crouching position which we had assumed on the platform’s floor, I could make cut an outline of great black structures, which could only be a city of some sort.”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories Quarterly, Vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 1929, (Apr 1929, ed. Arthur H. Lynch, publ. Experimenter Publishing Co., $0.50, 144pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; , illustrated by Paul and unsigned.
  • Amazing Stories, July 1968, (Jul 1968, ed. Harry Harrison, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 148pp, Digest, magazine)
  • The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_Quarterly_v02n02_1929-Spring_slpn

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OPUS#013 Sea Horror, The

OPUS: #013
Title: The Sea Horror
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1929
Type: novelette
Variant Titles: The Sea Terror (1938) – Edmond Hamilton
“In their cities in the ocean depths the slug-people launched their war against the civilization of man.”–TOC
“The great arm circled the submarine and held it tightly.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 13, no. 3, March 1929, (Mar 1929, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Senf
  • The Sea Terror, Tales of Wonder, #4, (Oct 1938, ed. Walter H. Gillings, publ. World’s Work Ltd., 1/-, 128pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: W. J. Roberts
  • The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v13n03_1929-03_sas

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OPUS#012 Star-Stealers, The [IP#2]

OPUS: #012
Title: The Star-Stealers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: novelette
Series: Interstellar Patrol
Series Number: 2
“A dread menace from outside the universe threatens to drag the solar shystem to destruction in the cold of outer space”–TOC
“The vast globe stretched from horizon to horizon beneath them.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 13, no. 2, February 1929, (Feb 1929, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: Rankin
  • Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 6, 1948, (Mar 1948, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Avon Book Co., $0.35, 124pp, Digest, magazine)
  • Crashing Suns, (1965, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #F-319, $0.40, 192pp, pb, coll)
  • Galassia #75, (Mar 1967, ed. Ugo Malaguti, publ. Casa Editrice La Tribuna, #75, 300 Lit, 190pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Paola Pallottino
  • The Space Opera Renaissance, (Jul 2006, ed. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, publ. Tor, 0-765-30617-4, $39.95, 941pp, hc, anth) Cover: NASA
  • The Space Opera Renaissance, (Aug 2006, ed. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, publ. Tor / SFBC, #12-15904, $34.95, 941pp, hc, anth)
  • The Space Opera Renaissance, (Jul 2007, ed. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, publ. Orb, 0-765-30618-2, $24.95, 941pp, tp, anth) Cover: NASA
  • Crashing Suns, (Aug 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-1-4014-0319-5, $4.00, ebook, coll)
  • The Star-Stealers: The Complete Adventures of The Interstellar Patrol, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-33-2, $40.00, 754pp, hc, coll) Cover: Hugh Rankin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v13n02_1929-02_AT-sas

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OPUS#010 Crashing Suns [IP#1]

OPUS: #010
Title: Crashing Suns
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1965
Type: novella
Series: Interstellar Patrol
Series number: #1
“A two-part tale of a hundred thousand year in the future – when our universe is threatened with destruction”–TOC of part 1
“They had their fire-disks trained upon the engineer.”–Part 1
“Two-part story of a hundred thousand year in the future – our universe is threatened with fiery destruction”–TOC of part 2
“They whirled and struck and fell there in the great gulf between the coldly smiling stars.”–part 2

「アルトと呼ばれる赤い恒星が太陽と激突する危機を回避すべく、星間パトロール隊が調査に赴き、アルトの惑星に住む球状生物に捕縛されるも、この球状生物の途方もないが科学によって、太陽と激突するようアルトの進路が修正された事実をつきとめて脱出し、太陽系の運命をかけて球状生物と宇宙戦をまじえ、ついにアルトの進路を安全なものにかえるという、圧倒的なスケールを誇るスペース・オペラである。ハミルトンの描写がさらに洗練され、語りにスピード感がくわわったことが、本篇の完成度を高めているといえるだろう。ちょうど本篇とほぼ時期を同じくして、バック・ロジャースやスカイラークが発表されているのは、SF史上興味深いことだが、まだこの時期には冥王星が発見されていないことを思いおこせば、今昔の感がひとしお胸をうつ」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　4　（青心社, 1990） p. 328-329
Magazine Appearances:
Crashing Suns (Part 1 of 2) (1928) – Edmond Hamilton
Crashing Suns (Part 2 of 2) (1928) – Edmond Hamilton

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 12, no. 2, August 1928, (Aug 1928, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., $0.25, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 12, no. 3, September 1928, (Sep 1928, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., $0.25, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • Crashing Suns, (1965, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #F-319, $0.40, 192pp, pb, coll)
  • Weird Tales, August 1928 (facsimile), (Nov 2007, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Girasol Collectables, $25.00, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf
  • Crashing Suns, (Aug 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-1-4014-0319-5, $4.00, ebook, coll)
  • Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol, (Aug 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni) Cover: Doug Chaffee
  • The Star-Stealers: The Complete Adventures of The Interstellar Patrol, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-33-2, $40.00, 754pp, hc, coll) Cover: Hugh Rankin
  • Crashing Suns, (Aug 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-1-4014-0319-5, $4.00, ebook, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Robert A. W. Lowndes (1958) in Future Science Fiction, No. 39, October 1958
  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook of part 1: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV12N02192808sasIfcIbc
ebook or part 2: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v12n03_1928-09_ATLPM-Urf