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OPUS#028 Sun People, The [IP#6]

OPUS: #028
Title: The Sun People
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
Series: Interstellar Patrol
Series Number: 6
“The great octopus-like Vegan had gripped the square’s edge firmly with his mighty tentacles.”
“A thrilling novelette about a race of people living in the interior of gigantic sun”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 15, no. 5, May 1930, (May 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Senf
  • 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

book: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v15n05_1930-05_sas

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OPUS#026 Plant Revolt, The

OPUS: #026
Title: The Plant Revolt
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
“The street was full from end to end with hundreds of slow-crawling plant masses.”
“On a mountain-top was created a horror that set the plant kingdom in wild revolt against man and animals”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 15, no. 4, April 1930, (Apr 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: Rankin
  • The Earth in Peril / Who Speaks of Conquest?, (1957, Lan Wright, Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Ace (Ace Double #D-205), #D-205, $0.35, 158+160pp, pb, omni) Cover: Ed Emshwiller , Stanley Metzoff
  • 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/WeirdTalesV15N04193004jvhSas

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OPUS#023 Space Visitors, The

NOTE: #023
Title: The Space Visitors
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: short story
Variant titles: The Space Beings
“The colossal scoop had descended lightning-like out of the skies at dusk, and with incredible swiftness had cut a vast lane of destruction through the city. It glittered strangely as though composed of an unknown metal.”
“The colossal scoop had cut a vast lane of destruction through the city”–Startling Stories, v2, n2

Publications:

  • Air Wonder Stories, Vol. 1, no. 9, March 1930, (Mar 1930, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing Corporation, $0.25, 100pp, large pulp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Frank R. Paul
  • as “The Space Beings,” Tales of Wonder, #5, (1938, ed. Walter H. Gillings, publ. World’s Work, 1/-, 128pp, magazine) Cover: W. J. Roberts; illustrated by Frank R. Paul
  • Startling Stories, Vol. 2, no. 2, September 1939, (Sep 1939, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Alex Schomburg
  • 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
  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 45, “A real gem of a classic by the old master about space fishermen who come trawling their nets for humanity, reprinted from Air Wonder Stories, March, 1930”

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OPUS#024 Evans of the Earth-Guard

OPUS: #024
Title: Evans of the Earth-Guard
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: short story
“The grim black rocket, whirling and dipping with an astounding swiftness, was endeavoring to bring the twisting little craft into the lines of its guns.”
“Evans of the Earth Guard,” by Edmond Hamilton, is a story in which we learn some of the problems that man will face if communication is ever established with the moon, and commerce with lunar cities is ever started. He shows how, in the future, we will have to have an “earth guard” to protect commerce and transportation between the earth and its satellites. — Popular Mechanics Magazine, vol. 53 no. 4, April 1930, p. 168.

Publications:

  • Air Wonder Stories, Vol. 1, no. 10, April 1930, (Apr 1930, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publications, $0.25, 96pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Lumen Winter.

Reviews:

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

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OPUS#022 Comet-Drivers, The [IP#5]

OPUS: #022
Title: The Comet-Drivers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
Series: Interstellar Patrol
Series Number: 5
“The combat that following was the most horrible I had ever engaged in.”
“From the valid of space it came, a cosmic vampire looting the lives of universes – a weird-scientific novelette”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 15, no.2, February 1930, (Feb 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: Rankin
  • 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_v15n02_1930-02_sas

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OPUS#021 Life-Masters, The

OPUS: #021
Title: The Life-Masters
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
“A great wave of living protoplasm swept through the streets, licking them clean of life.”
” Great masses of protoplasm formed in the seas and advanced upon the land in a wave of destruction and death.”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 15, no. 1, January 1930, (Jan 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • 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_v15n01_1930-01_-ibc_LPM-URF-AT-SAS

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ベムがいっぱい (Wacky World)

Translator: 南山宏 (MINAMIYAMA Hiroshi)
in: 世界ユーモアSF傑作選 1, 浅倉久志編, 講談社, 1980.03.15. – （講談社文庫 ; BX247, 113-1）, pp. 27-60
ISBN: 9784061372474
「四二年に発表されたこの作品も、SFのセルフパロディ、つまり、SFの中でSFを笑いとばすという手法の最も早い実例ではないかと思う。その先見性には脱帽するほかない」編者解説より
worldhumour

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フェッセンデンの宇宙 (Fessenden's Worlds)

Translator: 斉藤伯好 (SAITO Hakuko)
in: 海外SF傑作選 : 華麗なる幻想, 福島正実編, 講談社, 1977.02.15. – （講談社文庫 ; BX18, 7-8）, pp. 187-210
「ここに収録したのは、いわゆる極微宇宙テーマのヴァリエーションだが、荒っぽいスペース・オペラには見られるしみじみとした味わいがあり、代表作の一つといってよい」 — 伊藤典夫による作品解説
karei

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反対進化 (Devolution)

Translator: 小尾芙佐 (OBI Fusa)
in: 海外SF傑作選 : 不思議な国のラプソディ, 福島正実編, 講談社, 1976.04.15. – （講談社文庫 ; BX16, 7-6）, pp. 71-96
本編もそうした[註：物質転移、タイムパトロール、未来からの侵略、宇宙帝国、仮空の未来歴史SFを最初に創出した]ハミルトンの面目をよくあらわした典型的なアイデアストーリーである（編者後書きより）
fukushima-wonder

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追放者 (Exile)

Translator: 斉藤伯好 (SAITO Hakuko)
in: 海外SF傑作選 : 時と次元の彼方から, 福島正実編, 講談社, 1975.05.15. – （講談社文庫 ; BX9, 7-1), pp. 139-148
内容紹介
エドモンド・ハミルトンは、一九二〇年代から書きだしたアメリカSFきってのベテランである。彼の本領はスペースオペラ風の宇宙小説だが、そこに駆使されるサスペンスフルな手法は、時にこうした、スリリングな異次元SFとなって結実する。（福島正実の巻末解説より）
fukushima-time