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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

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OPUS#011 Polar Doom, The

OPUS: #011
Title: The Polar Doom
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1928
Type: novelette
“From under the polar ice a horror out of long-dead ages is loosed upon the world to spread terror and destruction”–TOC
“The red ray flashed after him, and in moment he, too, lay a distorted thing of cloth and flesh upon the ground.”
「北極点に近い島で太古の遺跡が発見されるという冒頭は、ラヴクラフトの『狂気の山脈にて』の北極版を予想させるが、さすがはハミルトンで、発掘のあとには謎の飛行物質があらわれて、地球の文明があっけなく破壊される描写がつづく。人類誕生よりもまえに地球を支配していた蟇じみた種族が、極寒に耐えきれず仮死の状態を保っていたところ、発掘により温暖化装置が始動して仮死状態から目覚め、ふたたび地球の支配に乗り出したののである。この装置のスイッチを切ることで、蟇じみた種族は絶滅させられる」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　4　（青心社, 1990） p. 333

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 12, no. 5, November 1928, (Nov 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

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v12n05_1928-11_sas

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OPUS#007 Time-Raider, The

OPUS: #007
Title: The Time-Raider
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novel
Magazine Appearances:
The Time-Raider (Part 1 of 4) (1927) – Edmond Hamilton
The Time-Raider (Part 2 of 4) (1927) – Edmond Hamilton
The Time-Raider (Part 3 of 4) (1927) – Edmond Hamilton
The Time-Raider (Part 4 of 4) (1928) – Edmond Hamilton

“A four-part serial story about an entity from far in the future, that sweeps back through time for its victims”–TOC of part1
“He dangled helplessly in the thing’s embrace.”–part 1
“A four-part serial story about an entity that sweeps back through time to seize its victims”–TOC of part 2
“Held in its shapeless form were men, who hung helpless in its grasp.”–part 2
“A four-part serial story about an entity that sweeps back through time to seize its victims”–TOC of part 3
“While exploring the ruins of Angkor, Professor Cannell is captured by the Time-Raider, a creature from fifteen thousand years in the future, which sweeps back through time for its victims to build up an army of warriors with which the Kanlars can overwhelm the parent city of Kom. Cannell’s friends, Wheeler and Lantin, build a time-car and pursue the Raider into the future, but are captured by the Kanlars and held prisoner with the teeming hordes of warriors in the City of the Pit. The two friends, with Denham (an English soldier of the time of George III), D’Alord (a French musketeer), Fabrius (a Roman legionary) and Ixtil (an Aztec cacique), plan to escape up the spiral stairway and flee to the city of Kom in Lantin’s time-car, which is hidden near the city of the Kanlars.”–part 3
“Help in its shapeless form were men, who hung helpless in its grasp.” – part 4
“A four-part serial about an entity that sweeps back through time to seize its victims.” – TOC of part 4

「一万五千年後の世界から訪れた者に友人をさらわれたため、若い科学者ふたりが数週間で時間移動機をつくりあげ、友人の救出にむかうという本篇は、筋立てにこそ新味はないが、邪悪な未来人が数において優勢な敵をほろばすため、過去から勇者を狩り集めて軍隊を組織するというアイデアは秀抜である。未来社会の科学力の描写等にも見るべきものがある。この時期におけるハミルトンの到達点といってさしつかえない」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　3　（青心社, 1990） p. 327
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 10, no. 4, October 1927, (Oct 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 10, no. 5, November 1927, (Nov 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 10, no. 6, December 1927, (Dec 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: none
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 11, no. 1, January 1928, (Jan 1928, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; illust: none
  • 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

part 1: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV10N04192710
part 2: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v10n05_1927-11_AT-sas
part 3: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV10N06192712
part 4: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV11N01192801sasIfcIbc