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The Star Kings (Fell) SK#1

The Star Kings
New York : F. Fell, 1949. –
262 p. ; 20 cm. – (Fell’s Science Fiction Library ; 49-11802)
Edmond Hamilton has more published science-fiction stories to his credit than any other author. The Star Kings will be hailed as his greatest work.
The Star Kings is a romance of that great age of space-travel in whose dawn we now stand. As military experimenters send rockets father up from Earth each month, and soberly plan bases on the moon and planets, the shape of a great space-traveling civilization of the future becomes more clearly defined. This story is an adventure into that future civilization – the adventure of a present-day man flung by the sorcery of science across time and space, and into a perilous whirl of intrigue and conflict between the great star-kingdoms of two thousand centuries from now.
This is escapist literature in the finest sense, the most thrilling type of delicious adventure since McCutcheon invented Graustark. Every science-fiction fan, old and new, will acclaim The Star Kings as a classic in its field.
Book Reviews:

  • Lardner, Rex, “Seven Novels of Varied Interest – Mid-Galactic: The Star Kings,” in: The New York Times Book Review, 18 Dec. 1949, p. 16.
  • Review by uncredited (1949) in The Arkham Sampler, Autumn 1949
  • Review by The Editor (1950) in Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1950
  •  Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1950) in Astounding Science Fiction, December 1950
  • Review by D. R. Smith (1950) in Science-Fantasy review, vol. 4, no.18, Spring 1950 [full text]
  • Vision of Tomorrow. 1(5):19-20. December 1950. (P. Miller)
  • Authentic Science Fiction. No.19:112. March 1952. (n.g.)
  • New Worlds Science Fiction. NO.11:95. Autumn 1951. (L.F.)
  • Thrilling Wonders Stories. 36(1):156. April 1950. (S. Merwin)
  • Super Science Stories. 6(3):98. March 1950. (F. Pohl)
  •  Review by Robert W. Lowndes (1951) in Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories, May 1951
  •  Review by Joseph H. Crawford, Jr. and James J. Donahue and Donald M. Grant (1953) in ‘333’: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel
  •  Review by Frederick Patten (1975) in Delap’s F & SF Review, October 1975

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The Solar Invasion (Popular Library)

The Solar Invasion (CF#20) by Manley Wade Wellman
New York : Popular Library 1968. –
126 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2346)
Cover: Frazetta
“From beyond the fifth dimension, a master fiend threatens to destroy the universe …… by Manly Wade Wellman” — Cover
The menace from out of time
it comes from beyond the fifth – an alien intelligence both invulnerable and totally evil.
Its aim: bring the universe to its knees. Its primary objective: destroy the Solar System.
As doomsday rushes ever closer, one lone man dares oppose the creature from beyond. Only he can save the universe from a brutal, blazing cataclysm.
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Quest Beyond the Stars (Popular Library) CF#9

Quest Beyond the Stars
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
142 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2389)
Cover: Jeff Jones
“Captain Future penetrates forbidden space to challenge the evil creatures who lie in wait” — Cover
Venture into darkest space
Mercury is slowly dying. Each year its air grows thiner. Each month thousands of broken Mercurians are ordered to leave their planet.
They have only one hope. Captain Future, the Solar System’s most daring agent, has promised to restore their world – a next to impossible task.
The solutions lies beyond the stars … at the very core of the universe where no man has ventured before. There, in the shadow of doom, Captain Future meets the mightiest of all evil beings – creatures he may not live to describe …
Book Reviews:

  • Luna Monthly. 1:31. June, 1969. (D. Paskow)
  • Venture Science Fiction. 3(2):123-124. August. 1969. (R. Goulart)

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Return to the Stars (Lancer) SK#2

Return to the Stars
New York : Lancer Books, 1970. –
207 p. ; 18 cm. – (Lancer Books ; 74612-075) NUC: 75-108253
Cover: Steranko
“One man of Earth battles a thousand stars to save our century from the far future!” — Cover
Kingdom of the Stars
John Gordon, twentieth century Earthman, is torn from his own time to a far distant future – a time when the entire galaxy is inhabited. But men do not rule the future; our race is only one among thousands, and many of those thousands are sworn enemies of humanity! Gordon, man of the past, is forced to form alliances with the men of the future in a desperate battle to save the human race from final annihilation…
Book Reviews:

  • Luna Monthly. 22:25. March 1971. (D. Paskow)
  • Science Fiction Review. 42:32. January 1971. (T. Pauls)
  • Vision of Tomorrow. 1(10):53-54. July 1970. (D. Malcolm)
  • World of IF. 20(6):150-151. July/August 1970. (L. del Rey)

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Danger Planet (Popular Library) CF#18

Danger Planet [Red Sun of Danger]
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2335)
Cover: Frazetta
“Introducing Captain Future, one strong man battling the galaxies of evil” — Cover
Danger Planet
One million years back in the swirling, shrouded past, evil ultra-beings ruled the Planet Roo. Suddenly, unbelievably, they are alive again, threatening the universe with total destruction.
Only one man dares challenge the Evil Ones. He is Captain Future, inter-galactic agent of justice, whose identity is top secret, whose strength is ultimate. He sets out alone to stop the deathless menace creeping ever closer…
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Tharkol, Lord of the Unknown : a Novel (UK edition)

Tharkol, Lord of the Unknown : a Novel
London : World Distributor/Sidney Pemberton, 1950
160 p. ; 19 cm. pbk ￡1/6
Original: The Prisoner of Mars
“A mighty Martian race bridges starless space to steal the Oceans of the Earth” — Cover
“A terrific story of a mighty Martian race that bridge starless space to steal the oceans of the earth.”–back cover of The Monsters of Juntonheim

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Planets in Peril (Popular Library) CF#12

Planets in Peril
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2416)
“Captain Future plunges into the deadly abyss of an unknown dimension – to reach a dying universe” — cover
Visit from another universe
They were the first arrivals from the other side of the cosmos.
With the help of the Martian scientist Thrin, they had crossed the whirling black abyss of the fourth dimensional – a dimension that had never been reached before.
Now a man with skin of pure marble-white and a woman of unearthly beauty stood before the disbelieving eyes of Captain Future and the Futuremen. The strange couple stared back in awe and amazement – particularly at Captain Future.
“Here is the one,” the man said finally in his alien tongue. “He is the only one who can save us!”
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Outlaws of the Moon (Popular Library)

Outlaws of the Moon
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2399 pbk
“A corrupt scientist plots to invade the moon – and destroy Captain Future” — Cover
CAPTAIN FUTURE IS DEAD!
The sorrowful cry spread throughout the Solar System. Captain Future and his Futuremen had been missing for months. There was little hope that they’d ever be seen again…
A scheming scientist headed for the moon. Now was his chance to find the Futuremen’s hideaway and steal their highly guarded secrets, secrets that could control the Universe. No one could stop him — not even the sinister lunar creatures — now that Captain Future was dead!
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