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OPUS#041 Earth-Owners, The

OPUS: #041
Title: The Earth-Owners
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: short story
“A weird-scientific story of beings from outside, who fought for the ownership of our world”–TOC
“A strange story of beings from outside, the fought for the ownership of our world”

「宇宙から雲状の生命体が飛来し、アメリカを襲う。雲状の生命体は人間のエネルギーを吸いとってしまう。チャールズ・フォートの本を読んだランダムは、彼らこそ太古における地球上の生命体の創造主であって、人類も彼らの家畜にすぎない、彼らはふたたび地球の所有物として君臨しにきたのだと信じる。人類が絶体絶命の危機に追いこまれたとき、天よりまた別の発光体が現れて雲状の生命体を撃退した。それを見ていたランダムは、発光体のほうこそ地球の真の所有者であったのだと悟る – おそらくハミルトンがチャールズ・フォートの本を読んで一気呵成に書きあげた作品だろう」 — 那智史郎・宮壁定雄　『ウィアード・テールズ』　別巻　（国書刊行会, 1988）  p. 113
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 18, no. 1, August 1931, (Aug 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Senf or Wesso

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v18n01_1931-08.Popular_Fiction_ATLPM-Sas

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OPUS#040 Ten Million Years Ahead

OPUS: #040
Title: Ten Million Years Ahead
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“A startling story of what this world will be like ten million years from now, when plants rule instead of men”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 17, no. 3, April/May 1931, (Apr 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, #v17 #3, $0.25, 144pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Senf

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTales19310405ATLPM

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OPUS#039 Monsters of Mars

OPUS: #039
Title: Monsters of Mars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“Three Martian-duped Earth-man swing open the gates of space that far so long had barred the greedy border of the Red Planet.”
“The Martian gestured with a reptilian arm toward the ladder.”
Publications:

  • Astounding Stories, Vol. 6, no. 1, April 1931, (Apr 1931, ed. Harry Bates, publ. Reader’s Guild, $0.20, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: H. W. Wesso; illustrated by J. Fleming Gould.
  • Astounding Stories, April 1931, (Nov 2009, ed. Harry Bates, Project Gutenberg, publ. Project Gutenberg, #30452, ebook, anth) Cover: H. W. Wesso

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/various3045230452-8.html
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OPUS#038 Man Who Evolved, The

Title: The Man Who Evolved
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: SHORTFICTION
Storylen: short story
“It was a great brain. It lay in the chambers, its surface ridged and wrinkled by innumerable fine convoluions.” Paul pp. 1266-1277

Publications:

  • Wonder Stories, Vol. 2, no. 11, April 1931, (Apr 1931, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illustrated by Frank R. Paul
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • Startling Stories, Vol. 4, no. 3, November 1940, (Nov 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: E. K. Bergey; Illustrated by Wesso
  • From Off This World, (1949, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, $2.95, 430pp, hc, anth) Cover: Virgil Finlay
  • 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 One, (1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-803-5, £0.50, v+223pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age, Book 1, (Apr 1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q2410, $1.50, 380pp, pb, anth)
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (Jun 1975, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Gregg Press, 0-8398-2304-5, $12.50, ix+256pp, hc, coll)
  • 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
  • Before the Golden Age, Book 1, (1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, 0-449-22913-0, $1.95, 380pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age, Volume One, (1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-803-5, £0.95, 380pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age, (1988, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Black Cat / Macdonald & Co, 0-7481-0196-9, £9.95, 828pp, hc, anth)
  • The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, (Aug 2010, ed. Rob Latham, Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Arthur B. Evans, Carol McGuirk, publ. Wesleyan University Press, 978-0-8195-6954-7, $85.00, 688pp, hc, anth)
  • The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, (Aug 2010, ed. Rob Latham, Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Arthur B. Evans, Carol McGuirk, publ. Wesleyan University Press, 978-0-8195-6955-4, $39.95, xviii+767pp, tp, anth) Cover: Georges Méliès
  • The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, (Aug 2010, ed. Rob Latham, Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Arthur B. Evans, Carol McGuirk, publ. Wesleyan University Press, 978-0-8195-6954-7, $85.00, 688pp, hc, anth)
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 47. “Hall of Fame classic story of the ironic ending to a scientist’s intense quest for the ultimate goal to human evolution, first appeared in Wonder Stories, April, 1931”

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OPUS#037 Horror City, The

OPUS: #037
Title: The Horror City
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“Two aviators are drawn by the suction of the winds into a black-domed city of horror in the heart of the Arabian desert”–TOC
“In the heart of the great Arabian desert lay a vast, black-domed city of horror unspeakable, and into this city were drawn three aviators by the tremendous suction of the winds”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 17, no. 2, February/March 1931, (Feb 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. Barker Petrie, Jr.; Illust: Petrie
  • The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV17N0219310203

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OPUS#036 Cosmic Cloud, The [IP#7]

OPUS: #036
Title: The Cosmic Cloud
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
Series: Interstellar Patrol
Series Number: 7
“A cloud of blackness beat against the edges of our universe, threatening its crowded suns and worlds with annihilation”-TOC
“A voice whispered tensely in his ear in the tongue of the galaxy.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 16, no. 5, November 1930, (Nov 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Senf
  • 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/Weird_Tales_v16n05_1930-11_sas

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OPUS#035 Mind-Master, The

OPUS: #035
Title: The Mind-Master
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: short story
“A powerful weird-scientific story about a scientist who sought to enslave the world to his ambitious schemes”-TOC
“He staggered with it like an automaton toward the thirteenth cabinet.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 16, no. 4, October 1930, (Oct 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: P.E.H.
  • The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v16n04_1930-10_sas

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OPUS#034 Man Who Saw the Future, The

OPUS: #034
Title: The Man Who Saw the Future
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: short story
Variant title: The Man Who Saw Everything
“How many men have had to suffer, in the past, for their belief in things too fantastic for those not gifted with their powers of imagination, which were regards as evil and often rewarded with death! A few centries ago, far-seeing prophets like Roger Bacon dreamed of to-day’s wonders, and their predictions were condemned as supernatural visions instead of being recognised as inspired glimpses of the future. The versatile Mr. Hamilton gives us a novel little story in this vein.”

“He witnessed the wonders of a time that would not come for centuries … and such things were the Devil’s work”–TOC of Tale of Wonder
“He told of an age of a thousand marvels that had yet to be … and they burned him as a sorcerer.”–Tales of Wonder

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 5, no. 7, October 1930, (Oct 1930, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Experimenter Publications, Inc., $0.25, 100pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey; Illust : Morey
  • Tales of Wonder, #11, (Jul 1940, ed. Walter H. Gillings, publ. World’s Work, pulp, magazine) Cover: Turner
  • Amazing Stories, February 1961, (Feb 1961, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 148pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Alex Schomburg; Illust : Morey
  • Strange Signposts, (1966, ed. Roger Elwood, Sam Moskowitz, publ. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 319pp, hc, anth)
  • Other Worlds, Other Times, (1969, ed. Sam Moskowitz, Roger Elwood, publ. Macfadden-Bartell, #75-238, $0.75, 192pp, pb, anth) Cover: Jack Faragasso
  • Science Fiction Adventure Classics, Winter 1970, pp. 3-17. (1970, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul
  • Other Worlds, Other Times, (Feb 1974, ed. Sam Moskowitz, Roger Elwood, publ. Manor Books, #95310, $0.95, 192pp, pb, anth)
  • The Fantastic Pulps, (Nov 1975, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Gollancz, 0-575-02000-8, £4.50, 419pp, hc, anth)
  • The Fantastic Pulps, (1976, ed. Peter Haining, publ. St. Martin’s Press, 0-312-28175-7, $10.00, 419pp, hc, anth)
  • The Fantastic Pulps, (Oct 1976, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Vintage Books, 0-394-72109-8, $2.95, 418pp, pb, anth)
  • Amazing Science Fiction Anthology: The Wonder Years 1926-1935, (Jan 1987, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, publ. TSR, 0-88038-439-5, $3.95, 316pp, pb, anth) Cover: Elmore
  • Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 012, (Mar 2009, ed. LibriVox, publ. LibriVox, audio (MP3), anth)
  • The Sargasso of Space and Two Others / The Copper-Clad World, (Jun 2009, Edmond Hamilton, Harl Vincent, publ. Wildside Press (Wildside Double #1), 978-1-4344-0506-7, $14.95, 86+80pp, dos, omni) Cover: Byron Moore , Catmando
  • Short Science Fiction Collection 19, (Jun 2009, ed. LibriVox, publ. LibriVox, audio (MP3), anth)
  • The Man Who Saw the Future, (Dec 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #28062, ebook)
  • The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltone2806228062.html
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28062
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OPUS#033 World Atavism

OPUS: #033
Title: World Atavism
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
Note: Amazing Stories, August 1930, illustrated by Frank R. Paul.
“The Sun’s rays have been credited with many beneficial powers. It is a universally conceded fact that the sun is necessary to good health; not only because of its warmth-giving rays, but also because of some other element, directly a health-giving factor, which has since been more or less successfully duplicated in the laboratory – in the form of Alpine lamps and what not. It is also said, however, that there are certain properties in the rays of the sun which might be used as life^giving rays. As far as we know, nothing definite has been established on this score yet. Who knows what other helpful possibilities are hidden in the various ether vibrations produced by the sun? Edmond Hamilton has a brand new idea, which he elaborates and weaves into a fascinating story of scientific fiction Certainly it seems to us to be of absorbing interest.”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 5, no.5, August 1930, (Aug 1930, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Experimenter Publications, Inc., $0.25, 96pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: H. W. Wesso; Illust: Paul
  • Science Fiction Classics, No. 3, Winter 1967, (1967, ed. Ralph Adris, publ. Magazine Productions, $0.50, 130pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey
  • The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume05Number05
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v05n05_1930-08_-_Teck

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OPUS#032 Second Satellite, The

OPUS: #032
Title: The Second Satellite
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
“Earth-men War on Frog-vampires for the Emancipation of the Human cows of Earth’s Second Satellite”
“The city of the frog-men!”

Publications:

  • Astounding Stories of Super-Science, Vol. 3, no. 2, August 1930, (Aug 1930, ed. Harry Bates, publ. Publishers’ Fiscal Corp, $0.20, 144pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 175-191 Cover: H. W. Wesso; illustrated by J. Fleming Gould.
  • Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930, (Aug 2009, ed. Harry Bates, Project Gutenberg, publ. Project Gutenberg, #29768, ebook, anth) Cover: H. W. Wesso
  • The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)
  • Short Science Fiction Collection 026, (Sep 2009, ed. LibriVox, publ. LibriVox, audio (MP3), anth)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

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ebook: https://scifistories.com/s/248/the-second-satellite