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OPUS#245 Starcombers, The

OPUS: #245
Title: The Starcombers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1956
Type: novella
“Greedy scavengers of the universe, they sold the dead dreams of ancient races for junk – until a battle for life taught them what dreams are worth!”

Publications:

  • Science Fiction Adventures, Vol. 1, no. 6, December 1956, (Dec 1956, ed. Larry T. Shaw, publ. Royal Publications, Inc., $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Ed Emsh
  • Science Fiction Adventures, No. 5, (Nov 1958, ed. Larry T. Shaw, John Carnell, publ. Nova Publications Ltd., 2/-, 118pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Emsh. *cut slightly
  • Great Science Fiction Adventures, (1963, ed. Larry T. Shaw, publ. Lancer, #72-697, $0.50, 174pp, pb, anth) Cover: Emsh
  • Great Science Fiction Adventures, (1968, ed. Larry T. Shaw, publ. Lancer, #74-944, $0.75, 285pp, pb, anth)
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OPUS#244 Last Call for Doomsday

OPUS: #244
Title: Last Call for Doomsday!
Author: S. M. Tenneshaw (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1956
Type: novella
“Wales knew life of Earth must end – yet to save humanity meant panic and chaos!”-TOC
“Wales saw men around him become savage beasts, shooting, looting, killing in frantic hysteria. Men without hope, they awaited the -”

Publication:

  • Imagination [v7 # 6, No.52, December 1956] (35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Lloyd N. Rognan)

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OPUS#243 Cosmic Kings, The

OPUS: #243
Title: The Cosmic Kings
Author: Alexander Blade (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1956
Type: novella
“Across the vast reaches of space Bryant fled from the Varkonid warships. There was one place of refuge, a forbidden planet rulled by -”

Publications:

  • Imaginative Tales [v3 #6, November 1956] (35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Lloyd Rognan), pp.  8-65.
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OPUS#242 Citadel of the Star Lords

OPUS: #242
Title: Citadel of the Star Lords
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1956
Type: novella
“Out of the dark vastness of the void came a conquering horde, incredible and invincible, with Earth’s only weapon – a man from the past!”
Publications:

  • Imagination, Vol. 7, no. 5, October 1956, (Oct 1956, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 8-65. Cover: Lloyd N. Rognan
  • Citadel of the Star Lords / Voyage to Eternity, (Dec 2010, ed. Milton Lesser, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Armchair Fiction (Armchair Fiction Double Novel #4), 978-1-61287-003-8, $12.95, 216pp, tp, anth)
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OPUS#241 Thunder World

OPUS: #241
Title: Thunder World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1956
Type: novella
“Farrel knew his father had made a great scientific discovery – and been killed for it; but revenge would lead him to the perils of – ”

Publications:

  • Imaginative Tales, Vol. 3, no. 4, July 1956, (Jul 1956, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Lloyd Rognan
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OPUS#240 Battle for the Stars

OPUS: #240
Title: Battle for the Stars
Author: Alexander Blade (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1956
Type: novella
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries
“Kirk had never seen the distant planet called Earth, yet his squadron was now ordered there – to stem the outbreak of a galactic war!”
“Galactic war led Kirk’s squadron into deep space, to a remote world called Earth!” – TOC
Publications:

  • Imagination [v7 # 3, No.49, June 1956] (35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Malcolm Smith) , pp. 6-58.
  • Battle for the Stars, (Nov 1961, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, Mead/Torquil, $2.95, 206pp, hc)
  • Battle for the Stars, (Dec 1961, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, Mead/Torquil / SFBC, $1.20, iv+206pp, hc)
  • Battle for the Stars, (1963, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Mayflower-Dell, #0480, 3/6, 190pp, pb)
  • Die Heimat der Astronauten, (1964, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Heinemann, 154pp, pb)
  • Battle for the Stars, (Aug 1964, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Paperback Library, #52-311, $0.50, 159pp, pb)
  • Battle for the Stars, (Dec 1967, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Paperback Library, #52-609, $0.50, 159pp, pb)
  • The Nemesis from Terra / Battle for the Stars, (May 1989, Leigh Brackett, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Tor (Tor Double #8), 0-812-55960-6, $2.95, 107+141pp, dos, omni) Cover: Bryn Barnard , Tony Roberts
  • Battle for the Stars, (Aug 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-0-812-55960-6, $4.00, ebook) Cover: Doug Chaffee
  • Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol, (Aug 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni) Cover: Doug Chaffee

Reviews:

    • Review by Alfred Bester (1962) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 22(2):89-90. February 1962
    • Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1962) in Analog Science Fact :  Science Fiction, 69(4):161. June 1962 , reprinted in: Analog Science Fact : Science Fiction, October 1962 (UK), (1962)
    • Review by Orson Scott Card (1989) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1989

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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