OPUS: #151
Title: The Three Planeteers (Complete Novel)
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: novel
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries
“From Earth, Venus and Mercury, three Musketeers of Space, accompanied by a female D’Artagnan, rocket out in a grim battle against the League of the Cold Worlds!”
「地球人、火星人、金生人のトリオが、太陽系を股にかけて、悪の軍勢にたちむかうという、むちゃくちゃなお話である。」 – 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. 170
Contents:
01 Comrades of Peril 13
02 Cold-World Menace 16
03 Into the Zone 22
04 Pirate Princess 26
05 Secret Enemy 31
06 The Trap 36
07 Shadow of the League 40
08 Out of the Past 44
09 Imprisoned Planeteers 50
10 Under Saturn’s Rings 55
11 Secret Police 58
12 Citadel of Fear 64
13 Dictator of Worlds 68
14 Under the Psychophones 72
15 Though the Tempest 76
16 Forbidden World 80
17 In the Shining Wastes 85
18 Damned Souls of Erebus 89
19 Cheerly’s Cunning 92
20 At Uranus’ Orbit 96
21 The Fight on the Moon 101
22 Blaine’s Weapon 104-105, 120, 122-126
23 Epilogue 126-129
Publications:

• Startling Stories, Vol. 3, no. 1, January 1940, (Jan 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Brown Illust: Finlay

Review:

• Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 6. “Typical rip-roaring Hamilton space opera. Nothing exceptional, but a rattling good yarn of three adventurers of the spaceways—an Earthling, a Martian and a Venusian–who join forces to combat the malevolent machinations of the evil League of the Cold Worlds to dominate the entire Solar System, including an heroic journey to the radioactive world of Erebus, outermost outpost of Sol’s family. This was possibly the prototype novel for the later Captain Future novels that started in their own magazine, a companion to both Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories, in Spring of 1940. “