Category Archives: 1950s: 1950-1959

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OPUS#229 Harpers of Titan, The [CF#23]

OPUS: #229
Title: The Harpers of Titan
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1950
Type: novelette
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 23
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“Again Simon Wright, the “Brain” lives in a human body, and in that guise contends with the most hideous peril he has ever faced – a menace driving a planet to madness!”
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 22, no. 1, September 1950, (Sep 1950, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey
  • Startling Stories (Canada), Vol. 22, no. 1, September 1950
  • Startling Stories (UK), No. 4, December 1950
  • Dr. Cyclops, (1967, ed. uncredited, publ. Popular Library, #445-02485-060, $0.60, 127pp, pb, anth) Cover: Herbert J. Bruck

Reviews:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 68. “Excellent Captain Future story of the people of Saturn’s largest moon and the strange cult of the Harpers that obsessed them almost to madness, and of how Simon Wright, the bodiless brain and long-time mentor of Curt Newton, had to take on full human guise once more in order to combat this bizarre menace.”

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Startling_Stories_v22n01_1950-09.Better (lack of many pages)

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OPUS#228 City at World’s End, The

OPUS: #228
Title: The City at World’s End (Complete Novel)
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1950
Variant Title of: City at World’s End (by Edmond Hamilton)
Type: novella
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries
“At first the people of Middletown thought that the superbomb was only a dud but actually it hurled all their town forward a million years!”
「超原子爆弾の爆発によって、アメリカの小さな町が数百万年後の未来にふきとばされ、住民たちはその時代の地球に人間が住んでいないことを知る。ここで描かれているのは、窮地におちいった人間たちの行動と、彼らが発見する星間文明である。この文明を築いたのは、はるか以前に地球に飛び出した人類で、支配圏を拡大しつづけているうちに、自分たちが地球で生まれた種族であるという意識を完全に失ってしまっている。この地球人類は、発展段階の劣る人間型の種族とコンタクトして、その種族を文明化して銀河連邦の一員にくわえようとしていたのである。」-『ＳＦ百科図鑑』
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 21, no. 3, July 1950, (Jul 1950, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey
  • City at World’s End, (Feb 1951, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Frederick Fell, $2.75, 239pp, hc)
  • City at World’s End, (1952, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Museum Press (Science Fiction Club), 9/6, 192pp, hc)
  • City at World’s End, (1954, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Corgi, #T58, 2/-, 221pp, pb) Cover: John Richards
  •  City at World’s End, (Sep 1957, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Fawcett Crest, #s184, $0.35, 160pp, pb) Cover: Richard Powers
  • City at World’s End, (Dec 1961, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Crest Books / Fawcett Publications, #s494, $0.35, 160pp, pb) Cover: Richard Powers
  • City at World’s End, (1964, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Crest Books / Fawcett World Library, #L758, $0.45, 160pp, pb) Cover: Richard Powers
  • City at World’s End, (Jan 1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Fawcett Crest, #M2026, $0.95, 160pp, pb) Cover: Paul Lehr
  • City at World’s End, (Jul 1983, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-30987-1, C$3.50, 201pp, pb) Cover: Rick Sternbach
  • City at World’s End, (Jul 1983, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-30987-1, $2.75, 201pp, pb) Cover: Rick Sternbach
  • City at World’s End, (Sep 2007, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Brownstone Books, 1-4344-8567-6, $24.95, 160pp, hc)
  • City at World’s End, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-0-345-30987-7, $4.00, ebook) Cover: Doug Chaffee
  • King of Stars, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni) Cover: Doug Chaffee
  • City at World’s End, (date unknown, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Crest Giant, #s184, $0.50, 160pp, pb) Cover: Richard Powers

Reviews:

  • Review by Jack Kelsey (1951) in Fantasy Advertiser, Volume 5, No. 2,  June 1951
  • Review by The Editors (1951) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1951
  • Review by L. Sprague de Camp (1951) in Astounding Science Fiction, August 1951
  • Review by Groff Conklin (1952) in Galaxy Science Fiction, March 1952
  • Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1965) in Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, June 1965
  • Review by Dick and Nicki Lynch, Chat : newszine of the Chattanooga Science Fiction Association, v1, no. 10, July, 1977
  • Review by Baird Searles (1984) in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, January 1984
  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 28. “”A much more literate and adult novel than the old World Wrecker’s earlier, cosmos -encompassing efforts, detailing the somewhat startling adventures experienced by a small townful of twentieth century inhabitants suddenly catapulted unexpectedly by the detonation of the ultimate weapon into an incredibly remote future wherein old Sol is a a virtually lifeless cinder and earth is a deserted and well- nigh forgotten world. This is a very well written and interesting novel indeed, though perhaps the sentimental aspects of it were a little overdone for my admittedly somewhat Philistine tastes, with many fascinating alien characters from the far-flung Galactic Confederation of allied worlds that now dominate the universe who come in reply to the stranded Earth-people’s desperate distress call, particularly Gorr Holl, the man-bear mechanic from Capella. He’s a corker. Reprinted in 1951 by Frederick Fell in hardcover, and then in paperback first in 1953 by Galaxy Science Fiction Novels, and then in 1954 by Corgi (England), and again in 1956 by Crest. “
  • Analog. 47(6):142-143. August 1951. (L. de Camp)
  • Galaxy. 3(6):83. March 1952. (G. Conklin)
  • New Worlds Science Fiction. No.18:96. November 1952. (L. Flood)
  • Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. 2(4):83-84. August 1951.(Boucher & McComas)

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ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltoneother05cityworldsend.html
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_Science_Fiction_Novel_18_Edmond_Hamilton_City_at_Worlds_End_1953

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OPUS#227 Children of the Sun [CF#22]

OPUS: #227
Title: Children of the Sun
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1950
Type: novelette
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 22
“Curt Newton, in quest of a friend lost inside Vulcan, faces the most insidious dangers he has ever known in his entire galactic career!”
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 21, no. 2, May 1950, (May 1950, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 98-116.  Ill : Orban
  • Startling Stories (Canada), Vol. 21, no. 2, May 1950
  • Thrilling Novels. No. 39, 1996

Contents:
Chapter 1 Quest of the Futurmen 98
Chapter 2 Citadel of Mystery 104
Chapter 3 Dread Metamorphosis 108
Chapter 4 The Bright Ones 111
Reviews:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 66-67. “The Futuremen attempt to save their friend, Philip Carlin, guest hero of Red Sun of Danger, from a strange and poetic destiny within the heart of fiery Vulcan.”

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/StartlingStories-1950may-00098

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OPUS#226 Return of the Captain Future, The [CF#21]

OPUS: #226
Title: The Return of Captain Future
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1950
Type: novelette
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 21
“The Man of Tomorrow Clashes in Fierce Combat with Mankind’s Deadliest Enemy – the Linid!”
Publications:

    • Startling Stories, Vol. 20, no. 3, January 1950, (Jan 1950, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey
    • Startling Stories (Canada), Vol. 20, no. 3, January 1950
    • Fantastic Adventure Stories, No. 2, Pulp Tales Press, 2008.7

Reviews:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 65. “First in a series of novelettes featuring the further exploits of Curt Newton and the Futuremen, probably better written but not quite as much fun as the original novels. In this one the Futuemen return from another galaxy, bearing with them a living survivor of the Linid, the non-human race that once ruled the Universe before the rise of mankind and its contemporaries.”
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OPUS#223 Twilight of the Gods

OPUS: #223
Title: Twilight of the Gods
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1948
Type: novelette
“Who knows what one has been in previous times and spaces removed from our own?”-TOC
“What dark, devious paths must a man follow to ultimately repossess himself?”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 40, no. 5, July 1948, (Jul 1948, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.20, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 4-24. Cover: Matt Fox; Illust: Humiston
  • Weird Tales of the Supernatural, (1966, ed. Kurt Singer, publ. W. H. Allen, 30/-, 352pp, hc, anth)
  • Supernatural, (1974, Kurt Singer, publ. Eclipse Books, A$1.95, 617pp, pb, omni)
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Weird Tales of the Supernatural (UK), (1975, ed. Kurt Singer, publ. White Lion Publishers, 350pp, anth)

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1948jul-00004
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v40n05_1948-07_Darwin-DPP