The Metal Giants
「（SFファンである）シーゲルの文通相手の一人、ノースダコタ州ウォッシュバーンに住むカール・スワンスンは、一九三二年の早い時期をめどに、新雑誌＜ギャラクシー＞の発行を計画。（中略）結局、スワンスンは雑誌を出すだけの資金を調達できなかった。彼は集めた作品のうちの二篇を、謄写版の小冊子にして一九三二年末に発行する。そのうちの一冊は、エドモンド・ハミルトンの「金属の巨人」の採録だった。これがプロの作品をファンが出版した最初」 – 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. 100
Washburn : Swanson Book, 1932 or 1933. –
35 p. ; cm. – (Science Fiction Reprint ; 1)
Note: Mimeographed; Reprinted from Weird Tales. Vol. 8, no. 6 (12-1926)
Category Archives: 1930s-1940s: 1930-1949
Tiger Girl (Six Sleepers)
Tiger Girl (Six Sleepers)
London : Utopian, 1945. –
36 p. ; cm. –
Bound With: Apprentice Magician / by E.H. Price
Note: One issue of short-lived UK Magazine, American Fiction, (Nov. 1945);
Reprinted from Weird Tales. Vol. 26, no. 4 (10-35)
Murder in the Clinic (UK edition)
Murder in the Clinic
London : Utopian, 1946. –
36 p. ; cm. – (Science Fiction ; 7)
Contents:
The Island of Unreason
The Murder in the Clinic
The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror
The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror
London : Philip Allan, 1936
256 p. ; 20 cm.
“Starting with the story that provides the title of the book, Edmond Hamilton presents the reader with six tales of horror, each of which has its undercurrent of science. A space-ship is wending its way from Earth to Jupiter when it runs into an uncharted meteor swarm and is smashed. The survivors get away in the life-boats and make for the nearest asteroid where they hope to remain till rescue comes. But does it come in time? A young man gets a doctor to operate on his eyes so that he can see through walls, and everything except organic matter vanishes from his sight. Is he satisfied when by lip-reading he can tell what people are saying that they do not want strangers to hear? There is included the story of and accursed Galaxy; the reader is surprised to find that he is really living on the body of a vast pulsating creature; a monster God is found inhabiting the African Desert, and finally there is an inspired tale that tells how “the mad of man’s evolution is a circular one, returning to its beginning.”
| Title | Page | |
| 1 | The Horror on the Asteroid | 009 |
| 2 | The Accursed Galaxy | 059 |
| 3 | The Man Who Saw Everything (The Man With the X-Ray Eyes) | 099 |
| 4 | The Earth-Brain | 127 |
| 5 | The Monster-God of Mamurth | 185 |
| 6 | The Man Who Evolved | 219 |
Review:
- Gillings, Walter H., in: Scientifiction : The British Fantasy Review. Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1937), p. 12.
- Fraser, Sir Ian, “What London is Doing and Thinking,” in: The Age, Jan. 16, 1937, p. 6.
The Star Kings (Canadian edition)
The Star Kings
Publisher: Toronto : George I. McLeod, 1949.
Note: Published simultaneously in USA by Frederick Fell
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
