OPUS#257 Planet of Exile

OPUS: #257
Title: Planet of Exile
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1958
Type: novella
“Interplanetary science fiction novel”
“What had become of the Earth Farrow had known? Gone were the proud cities and teeming millions. He found only desolation – and fear!”
Publications:

  • Space Travel, Vol. 5, no. 4, July 1958, (Jul 1958, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Malcolm Smith; Illust : D. Bruce Berry

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Space_Travel_v05n04_1958-07

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

OPUS#255 Corridor of the Suns

OPUS: #255
Title: Corridor of the Suns
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1958
Type: novella
variant title: Corridors of the Stars
“was it man’s destiny to bridge the awesome depths between the galaxies? Evers was hunted as a criminal for daring to dream he could find a -.” ill. D. Bruce Berry pp. 6-59
“Evers had found a way to bridge the galactic depths – and for this he must die!”
Publications:

  • Imagination, Vol. 9, no. 2, April 1958, (Apr 1958, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, digest, magazine), pp. 6-59. Cover: Malcolm Smith

OPUS#254 Men of the Morning Star

OPUS: #254
Title: Men of the Morning Star
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1958
Type: novella
“Who were these strange beings? And what was the secret of their shadow world in alien ocean depths? Did they mean death to Kerrick?”

Publications:

  • Imaginative Tales, Vol. 5, no. 2, March 1958, (Mar 1958, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Lloyd Rognan
  • Men of the Morning Star / Planet for Plunder, (Apr 2011, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., Hal Clement, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Armchair Fiction (Armchair Fiction Double Novel #13), 978-1-61287-018-2, $12.95, 216pp, tp, anth)

ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68612

OPUS#253 Cosmic Looters, The

OPUS: #253
Title: The Cosmic Looters
Author: Alexander Blade (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1958
Type: novella
“Wyatt knew of the alien peril facing Earth – yet nobody listened to his warning!”-TOC
“Wyatt knew his situation was desperate; he couldn’t stop the alien invasion, and even if he warned Earth – nobody would believe him!”

Publications:

  • Imagination [v9 # 1, No.59, February 1958] (35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Malcolm Smith), pp. 6-65.

OPUS#252 Fugitive of the Stars

OPUS: #252
Title: Fugitive of the Stars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1957
Type: novella or novel?
“Many had died in the space wreck, and Jim Horne was being tracked down as a murderer. His escape meant freedom – and a galactic holocaust!”
Publications:

  • Imagination, Vol. 8, no. 6, December 1957, (Dec 1957, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 6-62. Cover: Malcolm Smith
  • Fugitive of the Stars / Land Beyond the Map, (1965, Edmond Hamilton, Kenneth Bulmer, publ. Ace (Ace Double #M-111), #M-111, $0.45, 116+136pp, dos, omni) Cover: Jerome Podwil , Jack Gaughan
  • Fugitive of the Stars, (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

ebook: BookReader

OPUS#251 Ship from Infinity, The

OPUS: #251
Title: The Ship from Infinity
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1957
Type: novella
“Deep in the void it lurked, a mysterious giant of metal shaped into a vessel so vast it was beyond belief. And those who saw it – died!”

Publications:

  • Imaginative Tales, Vol. 4, no. 6, November 1957, (Nov 1957, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Lloyd Rognan
  • The Ship from Infinity / Takeoff, (Oct 2011, ed. Edmond Hamilton, C. M. Kornbluth, publ. Armchair Fiction (Armchair Fiction Double Novel #33), 978-1-61287-049-6, $12.95, 216pp, tp, anth)

ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68713

OPUS#250 No Earthman I

OPUS: #250
Title: No Earthman I
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1957
Type: novelette
「異世界の荒涼たる風景を描ききって[いる]」-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.

“When the Wind People turned on the Earthmen, John Tepper ran. But he ran in hatred, not terror – for he looked on Tharinan as his planet now, and he would not be driven from it ….”

Publications:

  • Venture Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 1, no. 6, November 1957, (Nov 1957, ed. Robert P. Mills, publ. Fantasy House, Inc., $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Emsh
  • Venture Science Fiction [UK], June 1964, (Jun 1964, ed. Ronald R. Wickers, publ. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd, 2/6, 116pp, Digest, magazine)

OPUS#249 Cosmic Destroyer, The

OPUS: #249
Title: The Cosmic Destroyer
Author: Alexander Blade (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1957
Type:  novella
“”Barron had two choices: he could leave the Pleiades peacefully, or stay to hunt a girl who – if he found her – would destroy the entire galaxy!”

Publications:

  • Imaginative Tales [v4 #5, September 1957] (35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Lloyd Rognan), pp. 6-59.

ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68694

OPUS#248 World of Never-Men

OPUS: #248
Title: World of Never-Men
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1957
Type: novella
“Barker set out on a trail of vengeance that would lead him to retribution–or death. It would also, inevitably, bind him to Mars’ dark secret…”

Publications:

  • Imaginative Tales, Vol. 4, no. 4, July 1957, (Jul 1957, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Malcolm Smith

ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68610