OPUS: #073
Title: Carter Makes a Squeal
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: vignette
Publication:
- Popular Detective [v3 #1, May 1935] (15¢, 146pp, pulp), p. 35.
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OPUS#072 Eternal Cycle, The
Title: The Eternal Cycle
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: short story
We are almost sorry that author Hamilton did not write this story into a novelette, because the tremendous idea behind it could well support a much longer story.
In this story is propounded a theory so fantastic that you have never heard anything to equal it – but, at the same time, it is not only very logical, but easily understandable. These three qualities are seldom mixed to such a masterful balance as they are in this short story.
Here, indeed, is an excellent example of the type of story we are looking for under our revolutionary policy – so original and utterly different that it will live in your memory much longer than others thirty times its length.
Publications:
- Wonder Stories, Vol. 6, no. 10, March 1935, (Mar 1935, ed. Hugo Gernsback, $0.25, 128pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: SAA???
- Gosh! Wow! (Sense of Wonder) Science Fiction, (Jan 1982, ed. Forrest J. Ackerman, publ. Bantam Books, 0-553-20187-5, $3.50, xxii+561+[2]pp, pb, anth)
Reviews:
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
OPUS#071 Truth Gas, The
Title: The Truth Gas
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: short story
“Honesty is the best policy.”
That is a sentence which everyone is familiar with. Little children are taught it by their parents and it is strongly advocated in every school and college. Among other things, it means that we should never tell a falsehood.
Then there are such words as “tact” and “discretion.” They signify what is fit, proper, and prudently wise. The question is, can you always tell the truth and be tactful and discreet at the same time?
This little tale draws a parallel to the author’s “The Man With X-Ray Eyes,” which we printed over a year ago, and will prove just as intriguing and original, though the development of the present story will amuse you.
Edmond Hamilton is one of the old stand-bys of science-fiction and is well up to standard here.
Publications:
- Wonder Stories, Vol. 6, no. 9, February 1935, (Feb 1935, ed. Hugo Gernsback, $0.25, 128pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Paul
Reviews:
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
- Drugs and death ; resarch issues, no. 9, Nov. 1974, p. 15.
Descriptor: Drugs as mind-controllers
Annotation: A scientist who believes that all sin and crime stem from deceptiveness perfects and releases into the atmosphere a drug that “causes a short-circuit between the brain’s thought-centers and its motor-centers of speech” so that lying becomes impossible. The resulting compulsive honesty leads to impossible social situations as the whole veneer of tact and diplomacy vanishes; it becomes necessary to devise and release an antidote.
OPUS#070 Murder in the Grave
OPUS: #070
Title: Murder in the Grave
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: short story
“A grim story of terrible ordeal – a night of terror ten feet below the surface of the ground”
“A grim story of a night of terror, ten feet underground”–TOC
Publications:
- Weird Tales, Vol. 25, no. 2, February 1935, (Feb 1935, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Napoli
OPUS#069 Masters of the Genes
Title: Master of the Genes
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: short story
Perhaps the most interesting of the sciences is biology, the study of living things, and genetics, the branch concerning genes and chromosomes, may be called the most fascinating side-line.
We know that all the characteristics of a living thing are transmitted during conception to the offspring. The shape of the nose, the color of the hair, the length of the arms – uncoutable thousands of regulations are governed by the nature of the microscopic genes.
If you do not know much about this subject, Mr. Hamilton’s latest story, which is now before you, will further acquaint you with one of the greatest mysteries of science, will make chills run through you when you contemplate what terrible things can happen when the tiny genes are defected.
Publications:
- Wonder Stories, Vol. 6, no. 8, January 1935, (Jan 1935, ed. Hugo Gernsback, $0.25, 128pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Frank R. Paul
- Thrilling Stories(UK). No. 1 (1946)
Reviews:
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
OPUS#068 Armageddon in Space
OPUS: #068
Title: Cosmos: Chapter 17: Armageddon in Space (Part 18 of 18)
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1934
Type: round-robin
「十七回続いた、リレー共作（ラウンド・ロビン）シリーズ「コスモス」の掲載である。ラルフ・ミルン・ファーリーが物語の方向を定めた。（中略）そしてエドモンド・ハミルトンが結末を書いた。この長篇は特筆に値する業績で、各エピソードは物語を進めながらも、それぞれに完結していたようでもあった。」 – 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. 99
Publications:
- Fantasy Magazine, December 1934-January 1935, (Dec 1934, ed. Julius Schwartz, publ. Conrad H. Ruppert, $0.10, 34pp, Pulp, fanzine) Cover: Clay Ferguson, Jr.
- Perry Rhodan #59: Interlude on Siliko 5, (Dec 1974, ed. Forrest J. Ackerman, Pat LoBrutto, publ. Ace Books, #441-66042, $0.95, 164pp, pb, magazine) Cover: Gray Morrow
- Perry Rhodan #60: Dimension Search, (Dec 1974, ed. Forrest J. Ackerman, Pat LoBrutto, publ. Ace Books, #441-66043, $0.95, 164pp, pb, magazine) Cover: Gray Morrow
- Cosmos, (March 2015, publ. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, $15.95(paperback), $49.95(hardcover), 336pp)
ebook: https://cosmos-serial.com/cosmos-the-serial/chapters-5-17-are-coming-soon/
OPUS#066 Thundering Worlds
OPUS: #066
Title: Thundering Worlds
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1934
Type: novelette
“An Odyssey of interplanetary space”–TOC
“A colossal thrill-tale of the distant future, when our Earth and the order planets leave the dying sun on a stupendous voyage to distant stars in search of light and heat”
Publications:
- Weird Tales, Vol. 23, no. 3, March 1934, (Mar 1934, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Hammond
- The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Apr 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, #1561, $2.98, xvii+334pp, hc, coll) Cover: Don Maitz
- The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Aug 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-25900-9, $1.95, xviii+381pp, pb, coll) Cover: H. R. Van Dongen
- The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)
ebook: http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/hamilton-thundering-worlds.html
ebook: http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2013/06/thundering-worlds-1934-by-edmo.html
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v23n03_1934-03_sas
OPUS#067 Corsairs of the Cosmos [IP#8]
OPUS: #067
Title: Corsairs of the Cosmos
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1934
Type: novelette
Series: Interstellar Patrol
Series number: #8
“A stupendous story of interstellar space – an amazing weird-scientific tale”–TOC
“A stupendous story of the Interstellar Patrol – an amazing weird – scientific tale of an invasion from outside the universe.”
Publications:
- Weird Tales, Vol. 23, no. 4, April 1934, (Apr 1934, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: H.R. Hammond
- 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
ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTales193404damagedIBCATLPM
OPUS#065 Man Who Returned, The
OPUS: #065
Title: The Man Who Returned
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1934
Type: short story
“The story of a man who was laid away in the tomb and returned to his friends”–TOC
“The story of a man who was laid away in his coffin, and the unexpected reception he got when he returned to his friends”
Publications:
- Weird Tales, Vol. 23, no. 2, February 1934, (Feb 1934, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust : Wilcox
- Weird Tales, (May 1964, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Pyramid Books, #R-1029, $0.50, 155pp, pb, anth) Cover: Virgil Finlay
- Weird Tales, (Nov 1976, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Neville Spearman (UK), 0-85978-020-1, £3.50, 264pp, hc, anth) Cover: Margaret Brundage
- The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Apr 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, #1561, $2.98, xvii+334pp, hc, coll) Cover: Don Maitz
- The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Aug 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-25900-9, $1.95, xviii+381pp, pb, coll) Cover: H. R. Van Dongen
- Weird Tales Vol. 1, (1978, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Sphere, 0-7221-4259-5, £0.85, 238pp, pb, anth)
- Weird Tales, (Jan 1979, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Jove / HBJ, 0-515-04877-1, $1.50, 155pp, pb, anth) Cover: Virgil Finlay
- Fear! Fear! Fear!, (1980, ed. Helen Hoke, publ. Franklin Watts, 0-531-04255-3, 144pp, hc, anth)
- Weird Tales, (Oct 1990, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Xanadu (UK), 1-85480-050-7, £14.99, 236pp, hc, anth) Cover: Harold S. DeLay , Lee Brown Coye
- Weird Tales, (Nov 1990, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Carroll & Graf, 0-88184-631-7, $21.95, 264pp, hc, anth) Cover: Harold S. DeLay
- The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)
ebook: http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/hamilton-the-man-who-returned.html
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v23n02_1934-02.Popular_Fiction_ATLPM-Sas
OPUS#064 War of the Sexes, The
OPUS: #064
Title: The War of the Sexes
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette
“A tale of 20,000 years in the future – a loveless world in which the Males and Females engaged in a war of extermination against each other”–TOC
“A tale of twenty thousand years in the future – a loveless world in which the Males and the Females are engaged in a war of extermination against each other”
“Many a person has spoken in jest of the war between the sexes. Thurber has produced some of his funniest cartoons on that subject: the inability of the male to comprehend the female and vice versa. Nobody can fail to notice the means by which each sex plots to ensnare the other; an intrigue which extends throughout every medium – dress, drama, conduct, arts, etc. There have been cultures in various places – semi-primitives in isolated lands still testify – where there exists and actual hostility between the sexes, where for instance women maintain secret codes and languages, live separately from the community of men. To this day, modern American males maintain lodges from
whose portals women are barred and whose affairs are conducted with codes and ceremonies no woman may hope to learn. There is therefore nothing at all impossible about Edmond Hamilton’s startling story of a period twenty thousand years from now. Nothing impossible, we repeat, but we certainly hope that it will always remain at least
improbable.” – Avon
“Love was treason in that astounding future – for women and men had divided into nations of their own – and they were at war! The maidenly charms, the manly virtues – they were but weapons to snare and slay the ones they attracted!” – Avon back cover
Publications:
- Weird Tales, Vol. 22, no. 5, November 1933, (Nov 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Wilcox
- Avon Science Fiction Reader #1, 1951, (Apr 1951, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Avon Novels, Inc., $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine)
ebook: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4htl56msvDfZWU0MGM0YmQtMWU0Ni00ZmZkLWIyOTEtNzZmMTI0YzAwMjdl/edit?hl=en&authkey=CJDipboB&pli=1
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v22n05_1933-11_ELPM-SliV