Category Archives: 1930s: 1930-1939

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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

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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)

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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)

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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

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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)

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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)

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OPUS#063 Man with X-Ray Eyes, The

Title: The Man with X-Ray Eyes
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Variant Title of: The Man Who Saw Everything (by Edmond Hamilton )
Type: short story
“Endowed with super-vision, reporter David Winn learns the awesome and terrifying secret of seeing too much!”–Startling
Perhaps the facts propounded in the present story are all too true … we know that some of them are. Perhaps it is well that the truth about many matters is kept from the public mind …. while the knowledge of others would definitely aid civilization.
If someone offered you the power of seeing everything – through walls – would you accept? We’ll wager you would. And David Winn accepted. He wanted to see all there was to see. He wanted the world revealed to his eyes. No real harm can come from merely using the sense of sight, you say. But read the story and you may change your opinion.
Publications:

  • Wonder Stories, Vol. 5, no. 4, November 1933, (Nov 1933, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing, $0.25, 128pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul
  • “Man Who Saw Everything, The”, The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • THE SEX SERUM, Dickinson, Utopian (UK), 1945hamilton-anthology1
  • Startling Stories, Summer 1946, (Jul 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey
  • “Man Who Saw Everything, The”, 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)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
  • Wonder Stories. Vol. 5, no, 4 (11-33) Illust: Winter
  • Startling Stories. Vol. 14, no. 1 (Summer-46), pp. 62-69. illust: Marchioni
  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 56. “One of the old master’s excellent psychological studies, about what it would be like for an ordinary man to become suddenly possessed of an extraordinary power. First appeared in Wonder Stories, November, 1933.”

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OPUS#062 Vampire Master, The [DD#1]

OPUS: #062
Title: The Vampire Master
Author: Hugh Davidson (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1933
Type: novella
Series: Dr. John Dale
Series number: #1
“A novel of corpses that would not stay dead, and a gruesome horror in the New York hills”–TOC
“A thrilling novel of corpses that would not stay dead, and a gruesome horror in the hills of New York”

Publication:

  • Weird Tales [v22 # 4, October 1933] (25¢, 128pp+, pulp, cover by M. Brundage), pp. 403-423. Illustrated by Wilcox.
  • Weird Tales [v22 # 5, November 1933] (25¢, 128pp+, pulp, cover by M. Brundage), pp. 551-569. Illustrated by Wilcox.
  • Weird Tales [v22 # 6, December 1933] (25¢, 128pp+, pulp, cover by M. Brundage), pp. 742-758. Illustrated by None.
  • Weird Tales [v23 # 1, January 1934] (25¢, 144pp+, pulp, cover by M. Brundage), pp. 94-108. Illustrated by Wilcox.
  • The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Terror, (Aug 2000, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-06-5, $32.00, xii+345pp, hc, coll) Cover: Jon Arfstrom.

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OPUS#060 Horror on the Asteroid, The

OPUS: #060
Title: The Horror on the Asteroid
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette
“An amazing weird-scientific story of a space-ship that was wrecked by meteors.”–TOC
“A story of interplanetary space, and the weird fate that be*** passengers and crew of a space-whip that was wrecked by meteors”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 22, no. 3, September 1933, (Sep 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Wilcox
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • 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)

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OPUS#059 Fire Creatures, The

OPUS: #059
Title: The Fire Creatures
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Type: novelette

“A breath-taking story of ** beings in the heart of an active volcano”
“A breath-taking story of a thrilling adventure in the heart of an active volcano”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 22, no. 1, July 1933, (Jul 1933, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Wilcox

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