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OPUS#097 Door into Infinity, The

OPUS: #097
Title: The Door into Infinity
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: novelette
“An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events.”
“An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events” — TOC
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 28, no. 2, August/September 1936, (Sep 1936, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 130-153. Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Napoli
  • The Second Leonaur Book of Supernatural Detectives, (2015, publ. Leonaur)

ebook: http://www.pulpmags.org/weird_tales_page.html
ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltone3284732847-8.html
ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_28/Issue_2/The_Door_into_Infinity
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32847
ebook: https://archive.org/details/weird_tales_august-september_1936
ebook: https://scifistories.com/s/405/the-door-into-infinity

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OPUS#009 Dimension Terror, The

OPUS: #009
Title: The Dimension Terror
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1928
Type: novelette

“Millions of lives were blotted out in the frightful catastrophe that came upon the earth out of the fifth dimension”–TOC

「五次元の存在を唱える科学者が失踪した後、世界じゅうの鉄が消え、人類の築きあげた文明が一挙に崩壊するありさまを伝える本篇は、『月の脅威』のプロットを流用している欠点がありながらも、入念な構成と描写は『月の脅威』をはるかにしのぎ、ハミルトンの成長ぶりを告げるものといえよう」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　3　（青心社, 1990） p. 339
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 11, no. 6, June 1928, (Jun 1928, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: 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/WeirdTalesV11N06192806

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OPUS#118 Death Comes in Glass (GH#2)

OPUS: #118
Title: Death Comes in Glass
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1937
Type: short story
Publication:

  • Thrilling Detective [v25 #1, September 1937] (10¢, pulp), pp. 54-61.
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OPUS#269 Doomstar

Title: Doomstar
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1966
Type: NOVEL
「（この作品に登場する）原子力兵器は、生命の源である恒星を、死をもたらす究極の兵器へと変容させるものである。コバルトの同位元素と触媒をおさめた弾頭をつんだ高速ミサイル群が、恒星に打ち込まれる。弾頭は恒星のなかに存在するコバルト原子と反応し、極端に不安定な別種の同位元素を作りだす。臨界点を超えるとその核反応は自己増殖をはじめ、恒星は巨大なコバルト爆弾となって、数百万キロの範囲内のすべての生命を死滅させてしまうのである。」-『ＳＦ百科図鑑』
Publications:

  • Doomstar, (Jan 1966, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Belmont, #B50-657, $0.50, 158pp, pb)
  • Doomstar, (Mar 1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Belmont, #B50-857, $0.50, 158pp, pb)
  • Doomstar, (Apr 1979, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Belmont, 0-505-51336-6, $1.25, 158pp, pb) Cover: Attila Hejja
  • Doomstar, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-0-505-51336-6, $4.00, ebook) Cover: Doug Chaffee
  • King of Stars, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni) Cover: Doug Chaffee

Book Reviews:

  • Janus. 5(1). Spring 1979 (Hank Luttrell)
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OPUS#256 Dark Backward, The

OPUS: #256
Title: The Dark Backward
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1958
Type: short story
“In winter, on an island off the New England coast, you get used to wind-lashed surf, to hardship and struggle, to the cold, lonely life. Maybe you get so used to it that you don’t want to hear when the bright future calls …”
「未来人が過去への移住を計画する捻りの利いた作品だ」- 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. 174.
Publications:

  • Venture Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 2, no. 3, May 1958, (May 1958, ed. Robert P. Mills, publ. Mercury Press, Inc., $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine)  Cover: M. S. Dollens; Ill : Giunta & Schoenherr
  • Venture Science Fiction [UK], February 1965, (Feb 1965, ed. Ronald R. Wickers, publ. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd, 3/-, 116pp, Digest, magazine)

ebook: http://magicmonkeyboy.blogspot.jp/2012/03/dark-backward-by-edmond-hamilton.html

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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

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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

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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

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OPUS#185 Daughter of Thor, The

OPUS: #185
Title: The Daughter of Thor
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“Lust for conquest flushed hot in Nazi breasts – the Norse gods confused it with the glory of combat”–TOC
“With the coming of the Nazi invaders, war came once again to the gods; who loved to fight. But how could they know which was the right side? Should they fight Nazis?”

「この作品で面白いのは、神々は最初、戦争好きなナチの側につくのだが、ナチの虐殺と欺瞞を知るにおよんで、逆の側にまわるという展開だ」 – 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. 208
Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 4, no. 8, August 1942, (Aug 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 10-47. Cover: Robert Gibson Jones

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 207. “An American pilot who has just escaped from a Nazi prison in Norway is fighting one of his pursuers when both men are taken by Brunhild, daughter of Thor, to Valhalla. The robust gods in Valhalla are happy to hear that there is a war on and decide to help the Nazis since the American professes to be peaceloving. As they approach a battle, however, they are appalled by Nazi butchery and trickery, and decide to help the gallant Norse fighting for their homeland.”

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/FantasticAdventures-1942aug-00010
ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68341

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OPUS#178 Dreamer's Worlds

OPUS: #178
Title: Dreamer’s Worlds
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novelette
“Swift Fantasy Novelet of a Dreamer and His Dream”
“Surely the world of Thar – its strange cities and enormous mountains, its turquoise seas, twin moons and crimson and crimson sun – is nothing but a dream? And yet…”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 36, no. 2, November 1941, (Nov 1941, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hannes Bok; Illust: Dolgov
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)

ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_36/Issue_2/Dreamer%27s_Worlds
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v36n02_1941-11