OPUS: #008
Title: The Comet Doom
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novelette
“For a moment he struggled frantically, then heard a hoarse cry, and wrenched his head up to see a dark shape, speeding across the plateau from the opposite edge. It was Coburn. Twisting in the remorseless grip of the two with whom he battled, he had a flashing glimpse of Coburn racing toward the machine, and then he uttered a cry of agony. From one of the hovering cones above, a shaft of the light-ray had flashed down and it struck Coburn squarely. A moment he was visible, aureoled in a hale of blinding light …”
Publications:

• Amazing Stories, Vol. 2, no. 10, January 1928, (Jan 1928, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Experimenter Publishing Co., $0.25, 96pp, Bedsheet, magazine), pp. 64-100. Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Frank R. Paul

• Amazing Stories, Vol. 40, no. 3, December 1965, (Dec 1965, ed. Joseph Ross, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 164pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Castellon

• Comets, (1986, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Signet / New American Library, 0-451-14129-6, $3.95, 339pp, pb, anth)

• 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