Category Archives: 1960s: 1960-1969

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OPUS#265 After a Judgement Day

OPUS: #265
Title: After a Judgement Day
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1963
Type: short story
“Not to look at Earth, was the main thing. It was such a natural thing to do, to lean back in your chair and look up through the ceiling window and see the gray-and-bluish globe of Earth spinning away there against the blackness and the stars. But if you started looking, pretty soon you were remembering, and there was no use remembering now, no use at all.”

Publications:

  • Fantastic Stories of Imagination, Vol. 12, no. 12, December 1963, (Dec 1963, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Paul E. Wenzel; Ill : Finlay
  • Thrilling Science Fiction, October 1972, (Oct 1972, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., #ICD 08830, $0.60, 132pp, digest, magazine), pp. 92-103.
  • 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)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Science_Fiction_27_1972-10/page/n3/mode/2up

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OPUS#264 Babylon in the Sky

OPUS: #264
Title: Babylon in the Sky
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1963
Type: short story
“The monstrous cities orbiting overhead mocked the earthbound humans. Hobie wanted to reach out there and pull one down and smash it.”

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 37, no. 6, March 1963, (Mar 1963, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 6-21.  Cover: Lloyd Birmingham; illustrated by Birmingham
  • Great Science Fiction, No. 8, Fall 1967, (1967, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Leo Summers

ebook: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n5dQZQgbQg17S5NQnK5JysIHgbarJgvA

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OPUS#263 Sunfire!

OPUS: #263
Title: Sunfire!
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1962
Type: short story
“He was a walking in the pine grove, with the resinous smell of the trees in his mostrils. Once he had met a smell vaguely like it, far away from Earth. Forget about that, a voice said in his mind, but he would never forget.”
“Hamilton had a resurgence in the magazine with a handful of superb tales, including ‘Sunfire!’ (Amazing, September 1962), about sentient energy life on Mercury.” – Ashley, Mike, Transformations : the story of the science-fiction magazines from 1950 to 1970, Liverpool University Press, 2005, p. 227.
「水星に棲む有知覚のエネルギー生命を扱った」 – マイク・アシュリー著 ; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史：黄金期そして革命』（東京創元社, 2015）p. 288.

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 36, no. 9, September 1962, (Sep 1962, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 6-20.  Cover: Lloyd Birmingham; Illust : Finlay
  • The Best of Amazing, (1967, ed. Joseph Ross, publ. Doubleday, hc, anth)
  • The Best of Amazing, (1968, ed. Joseph Ross, publ. Robert Hale, 0-7091-0461-8, 224pp, hc, anth)
  • The Best of Amazing, (1969, ed. Joseph Ross, publ. Belmont, #B75-1017, $0.75, 192pp, pb, anth)
  • Thrilling Science Fiction, February 1973, (Feb 1973, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.60, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Ron Walotsky
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Amazing Stories, August 1979, (Aug 1979, ed. Omar Gohagen, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., #ISSN: 0164-7687, $1.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Elinor Mavor
  • Science Fiction Gems, Volume Six, (2013, comp. Gregory Luce, publ. Armchair Fiction & Music, #AF-G11)

ebook: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nu9U0q2MY1nUK4TzVBBG1g2nlRB-dayn

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OPUS#262 Stars, My Brothers, The

OPUS: #262
Title: The Stars, My Brothers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1962
Type: novelette
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries : Era of Interstellar Exploration 2300-2621
“He was afraid – not of the present or the future, but of the past. He was afraid of the thing tagged Reed Kieran, that stiff blind voiceless thing wheeling its slow orbit around the Moon, companion to dead worlds and silent space.”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 36, no. 5, May 1962, (May 1962, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 148pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 6-43. Cover: George Schelling; Illust : Finlay
  • Alien Worlds, (Sep 1964, ed. Roger Elwood, publ. Paperback Library, #52-320, $0.50, 176pp, pb, anth)
  • The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, No. 8, Spring 1968, (1968, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine)  Illust : Finlay
  • Alien Worlds, (Apr 1968, ed. Roger Elwood, publ. Paperback Library, #610-53667-060, $0.60, 176pp, pb, anth)
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Amazing Stories: Vision of Other Worlds, (1986, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, publ. TSR, 0-88038-302-X, $7.95, 253pp, pb, anth)
  • The Stars, My Brothers, (Mar 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #24870, ebook)
  • The Stars, My Brothers, (Apr 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. LibriVox, audio (MP3))
  • The Sargasso of Space and Two Others / The Copper-Clad World, (Jun 2009, Edmond Hamilton, Harl Vincent, publ. Wildside Press (Wildside Double #1), 978-1-4344-0506-7, $14.95, 86+80pp, dos, omni) Cover: Byron Moore , Catmando
  • The Stars, My Brothers, (May 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Wildside Press, 978-1-4344-0970-6, $2.99, 50pp, tp)

ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltone2487024870.html
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24870

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OPUS#261 Requiem

OPUS: #261
Title: Requiem
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1962
Type: short story

“All during its lifetime Earth had been deluged … overwhelmed … submerged in and endless torrent of words. Was even its death to be striped of dignity by the cackling of the mass media?”

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 36, no. 4, April 1962, (Apr 1962, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 148pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 28-45. Cover: Lloyd Birmingham; Illust : Summers
  • Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction, No. 7 (1965, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. World Publishing Co., $6.00, 518pp, hc, anth)   Illust : Summers
  • The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, No. 7, Winter 1967, (1967, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine)
  • The Vortex Blasters and Other Stories, (1968, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Macfadden-Bartell, #60-325, $0.60, 144pp, pb, anth) *derivative anthology
  • The Learning Maze and Other Science Fiction, (1974, ed. Roger Elwood, publ. Julian Messner, 0-671-32661-9, $6.95, 191pp, hc, anth)
  • Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction, (1974, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Hyperion Press, 0-88355-126-8, 518pp, hc, anth)
  • Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction, (1974, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Hyperion Press, 0-88355-155-1, $4.95, 518pp, hc, anth)
  • 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
  • Catastrophes!, (Jul 1981, ed. Charles G. Waugh, Martin Harry Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, 0-449-24425-3, $2.50, 413pp, pb, anth) Cover: John Berkey
  • Amazing Stories: 60 Years of the Best Science Fiction, (Jul 1985, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. TSR, 0-88038-216-3, $7.95, 255pp, tp, anth)
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Requiem_35

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OPUS#260 Haunted Stars, The

OPUS: #260
Title: The Haunted Stars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1960
Type: NOVEL
Publications:

  • The Haunted Stars, (Mar 1960, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, Mead/Torquil / SFBC, $1.20, 192pp, hc)
  • The Haunted Stars, (Mar 1960, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, Mead/Torquil, $2.95, 192pp, hc)
  • The Haunted Stars, (Mar 1960, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, C$3.50, 192pp, hc)
  • in: Tyrone Daily Herald, May-August, 1961 [info]
  • in:Reading Eagle (Sunday Eagle : Book of the Week), Aug. 20-Oct. 22, 1961,  [ebook]
  • in: Brooklyn Daily, []-[], 1961.
  • in: The Daily Courier, []-[], 1961.
  • The Haunted Stars, (Feb 1962, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Pyramid Books, #F-698, $0.40, 159pp, pb) Cover: V. Kandinsky
  • The Haunted Stars, (1965, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Herbert Jenkins, 12/6, 174pp, hc) Cover: Brian Lewis
  • The Haunted Stars, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-1-5150-0698-5, $4.00, ebook) Cover: V. Kandinsky
  • King of Stars, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni) Cover: Doug Chaffee

Reviews:

  • Review by S. E. Cotts (1960) in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, July 1960
  • Review by uncredited (1960) in New Frontiers, vol. 1, no. 3, August 1960, p. 45-46.
  • Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1960) in Analog Science Fact -> Fiction, November 1960
  • Review by Floyd C. Gale (1963) in Galaxy Magazine, April 1963
  • Review by Donald Malcolm (1965) in Vector 33
  • Amazing. 34(7):137. July 1960. (S. Cotts)
  • Analog. 66(3):167-168. November 1960. (P. Miller)
  • Books & Bookmen. 10:31. Sept., 1965.
  • Galaxy. 21(4):156-157. April 1963. (F. Gale)
  • Punch. 248:5. Apr. 7. 1965.