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OPUS#104 Devolution

OPUS: #104
Title: Devolution
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: short story
“Edmond Hamilton has long ranked as one of AMAZING STORIES favorite writers and in this narration and entirely orinal turn is given to the events as they succeed.”
「人類は進化したのではなく、異星から超知性を備えた原形質生物の一隊が太古の地球を訪れ、彼らから退化した存在だというのだ」 – 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. 140

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 10, no. 13, December 1936, (Dec 1936, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Teck Publications, Inc., $0.25, 148pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 90-101. Cover: Leo Morey; illustrated by Leo Morey
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 35, no. 4, April 1961, (Apr 1961, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 196pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 25-39. Cover: Frank R. Paul
  • Science Fiction Classics Annual, No. 1 (1970, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.60, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul
  • Before the Golden Age, (1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Robson Books, 0-903895-28-5, £5.95, xix+986pp, hc, anth) Cover: Timothy Jaques
  • Before the Golden Age, (Apr 1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Doubleday, 0-385-02419-3, $16.95, xix+986pp, hc, anth) Cover: Tim Lewis
  • Before the Golden Age, (May 1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Doubleday / SFBC, #6173, $4.50, xvi+912pp, hc, anth) Cover: Tim Lewis
  • Before the Golden Age Volume Four, (1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-884-1, £0.75, v+256pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930’s: Book 3, (Aug 1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q2525, $1.50, 400pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age, Book 3, (Aug 1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q2525, $1.50, 400pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age Volume Three, (1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-862-0, £0.95, 400pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age, Book 3, (Jun 1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, 0-449-23593-9, $1.95, 400pp, pb, anth)
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 52, no. 3, May 1979, (May 1979, ed. Omar Gohagen, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $1.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 32-49. Cover: Scott Mavor; Ill : S. Mavor
  • Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada, (1981, ed. John Robert Colombo, publ. Hounslow Press, 181pp, hc, anth)
  • Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada by Foreign Authors, (1981, ed. John Robert Colombo, publ. Hounslow Press, no ISBN, $8.95, 181pp, tp, anth)
  • Amazing Science Fiction Anthology: The War Years 1936-1945, (Apr 1987, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, publ. TSR, 0-88038-440-9, $3.95, 331pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age, (1988, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Black Cat / Macdonald & Co, 0-7481-0196-9, £9.95, 828pp, hc, anth)
  • Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century, (Nov 2001, ed. Orson Scott Card, publ. Ace, 0-441-00864-X, $24.95, x+422pp, hc, anth) Cover: Pyrographx
  • Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century, (Dec 2001, ed. Orson Scott Card, publ. Ace / SFBC, #11613, $12.50, x+422pp, hc, anth)
  • Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century, (Mar 2004, ed. Orson Scott Card, publ. Ace, 0-441-01133-0, $14.00, 422pp, tp, anth)
  • Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century, (date unknown, ed. Orson Scott Card, publ. Ace, 0-441-00864-X, $24.95, x+422pp, hc, anth) Cover: Pyrographx

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
  • Review by Frederik Pohl, in: Science Fiction Critic, vol. 1, issue 6 (Dec. 1936), p. 12. [info]

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OPUS#103 Dying Fingers Point

OPUS: #103
Title: Dying Fingers Point
Author: John S. Endicott (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1936
Type: vignette
Publication:

  • Popular Detective [v8 #3, October 1936] (Beacon Magazines, Inc., 15¢, 148pp, pulp, cover by Albin Henning), pp. 110-112.
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OPUS#102 Last Bequest

OPUS: #102
Title: Last Bequest
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: vignette
Publication:

  • Popular Detective [v8 #3, October 1936] (Beacon Magazines, Inc., 15¢, 148pp, pulp, cover by Albin Henning), pp. 61-62.
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OPUS#101 Cosmic Quest

OPUS: #101
Title: Cosmic Quest
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: short story
“To Save a Race from Destruction, a Star-Roving Explorer Speeds Through a Boundless Universe!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 8, no. 2, October 1936, (Oct 1936, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Beacon Magazines, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: Marchioni

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years (Reviews: pages 266-522, M-Z)

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1936oct-00033

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OPUS#100 Snow Clue

OPUS: #100
Title: Snow Clue
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: short story
Publication:

  • Popular Detective [v8 #2, September 1936] (Beacon Magazines, 15¢, 146pp, pulp), pp. 114-116.
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OPUS#099 Great Illusion, The (Round robin)

OPUS: #099
Title: The Great Illusion
Authors: Earl Binder and Otto Binder and Edmond Hamilton and Raymond Z. Gallun and Jack Williamson and John Russell Fearn
Year: 1936
Type: round-robin
「・・・共同執筆になるSF掌篇（コント）であった。この小説は最後から書きはじめられたのである。つまりファーンがまず結末を執筆し、その原稿をレイモンド・Z・ギャランに送ると、ギャランが四番目のストーリーを書く、という風にして書き上げられた。全体的な共通のプランは存在しなかった。（中略）エドモンド・ハミルトンは次のように書いた＜＜最後の二つのパートがどういう意味か教えてくれる人がいたら、千ドルの賞金をさしあげたい。それに私自身が何を書いたのか教えてくれる人がいたら、一万ドルの賞金をさしあげたいところである。これはSFのあらゆる歴史を通してもっとも気違いじみた短篇だと思われるのだ＞＞（中略）さて、作者たちは悲観的な見方をしているが、実際はどうなのだろう。ひことことでいって、「偉大な幻影」”The Great Illusion”はなるほど大きな価値をもつ小説ではないが、完全に理解できるし最初から最後まで筋が通っている。」 – ジャック・サドゥール著; 鹿島茂,鈴木秀治訳『現代SFの歴史』(早川書房, 1984.12) p. 158-159
The Great Illusion (Part 1 of 5) (1936) – Eando Binder
The Great Illusion (Part 2 of 5) (1936) – Jack Williamson
The Great Illusion (Part 3 of 5) (1936) – Edmond Hamilton
The Great Illusion (Part 4 of 5) (1936) – Raymond Z. Gallun
The Great Illusion (Part 5 of 5) (1936) – John Russell Fearn
Publication:

  • Fantasy Magazine [v6 #4, No.38, September 1936] (10¢, 40pp, 5½” x 8½”), pp. 2-12.
  • The Great Illusion, (1976, Eando Binder, Jack Williamson, Edmond Hamilton, Raymond Z. Gallun, John Russell Fearn, publ. Fantasy Booklet, 12pp, ph)
  • Spider Island: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Four, (Apr 2002, Jack Williamson, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-14-6, $35.00, xxiii+589pp, hc, coll) Cover: Rudolph Belarski

ebook: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Great%20Illusion%20fantasy%20booklet

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OPUS#098 Children of Terror

OPUS: #98
Title: Children of Terror
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: short story
Publication:

  • Thrilling Mystery [v4 #2, September 1936] (10¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Rudolph Belarski), pp. 76-85.
  • The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Terror, (Aug 2000, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-06-5, $32.00, xii+345pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom
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OPUS#095 Crime Crusader, The

OPUS: #095
Title: The Crime Crusader
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: short story
Publication:

  • Thrilling Detective [v19 #3, August 1936] (10¢, pulp), pp. 100-107.
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OPUS#094 When the World Slept

OPUS: #094
Title: When the World Slept
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: short story
“A thrilling weird-scientific story about a catastrophe that put the whole world to sleep.”–TOC
“A thrilling weird-scientific tale about a catastrophe that put the whole world into a strange sumber”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 28, no. 1, July 1936, (Jul 1936, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Deloy
  • Weird Tales (Canada), Vol. 28, no. 1, July 1936

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v28n01_1936-07_sas