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OPUS#207 Forgotten World

OPUS: #207
Title: Forgotten World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: novelette
“Star-sick Laird Carlin is ordered back to Earth for a rest cure – and there on the ancient, ancestral planet, his love for a girl lures him into the toils of a weird conspiracy!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 28, no. 1, Winter 1946, (Feb 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: THM
  • The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction, (1954, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, $3.95, 580pp, hc, anth)
  • Fantastic Story Magazine, Vol. 7, no. 3, Fall 1954, (Oct 1954, ed. Samuel Mines, publ. Best Books, Inc., $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Jack Coggins
  • Race to the Stars, (Oct 1958, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Crest Books / Fawcett Publications, #s245, $0.35, 224pp, pb, anth) Cover: Stanley Meltzoff

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v28n01_1946-01-Winter/page/n11/mode/2up?view=theater

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OPUS#206 Outlaw World [CF#19]

OPUS: #206
Title: Outlaw World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1946
Type: novella
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 19
“On the trail of malevolent space pirates, Curt Newton and the Futuremen combat the evil machinations of the Uranian Ru Ghur, who plans the total destruction of the Universe!”

Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 1946, (Jan 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc.; Chicago, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Orban
  • Startling Stories (Canada), Vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 1946
  • Startling Stories (Canada), No. 1, June 1949
  • Outlaw World, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2376, $0.60, 126pp, pb) Cover: Frank Frazetta

Reviews:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 19. “Edmond Hamilton’s last Captain Future novel, though he wrote several excellent novelettes on the subject for Startling Stories a few years later. This one is a prettyfair entry in the series, concerning the Futuremen’s search for the location of the secret outlaw world whose unscrupulous overlord is plotting a monumental crime coup with the aid of the radium he has been stealing all over the Solar System. Reprinted in 1969 in paperback by Popular Library. “
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OPUS#205 Lost Elysium [BC#2]

OPUS: #205
Title: Lost Elysium
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: novelette
Series: Brian Cullan (BC)
Series number: #2
“There is a world congruent with Earth but existing on a different plane of vibration, a world of unearthly beauty–and horror!”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 39, no. 2, November 1945, (Nov 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Dolgov

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesVolume38Number03Canadian
ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Weird_Tales_volume_38_number_03_CAN.djvu/6

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OPUS#204 Trouble on Triton

OPUS: #204
Title: Trouble on Triton
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: novelette
“Web Carter stages a drama that is not in the script”– TOC
“To save the starving natives of Triton, Web Carter stages a drama that is not in the script!”

Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 12, no. 3, Fall 1945, (Oct 1945, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Marchioni

Book review:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 55. “Good old-fashioned space opera by the master practitioner of the genre.”

ebook: https://archive.org/details/StartlingStoriesV12n031945Fall56ufikusDPP

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OPUS#203 Inn Outside the World, The

OPUS: #203
Title: The Inn Outside the World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
“The aged statesman complained that intolerance, old grudges and ambitious men plague this world eternally”–TOC
“The night over some parts of the world may indeed be a long, long night”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 6, July 1945, (Jul 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Lee Brown Coye; Illust: Dolgov
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Nov 1949, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, xiv+556pp, hc, anth)
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Aug 1950, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Merlin Press, xiv+556pp, hc, anth)
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (May 1954, ed. Oscar J. Friend, Leo Margulies, publ. Pocket, #1007, $0.25, viii + 263pp, pb, anth) Cover: E. M. Godschalk
  • My Best Science Fiction Story, (Jul 1954, ed. Leo Margulies, Oscar J. Friend, publ. Pocket, #1007, $0.25, viii + 263pp, pb, anth) Cover: E. M. Godschalk
  • Most Thrilling Science Fiction, No. 14, Fall 1969
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Science Fact/Fiction, (1974, ed. Edmund J. Farrell, Thomas E. Gage, John Pfordresher, Raymond J. Rodrigues, publ. Scott Foresman and Company, 0-673-03407-0, xv+394pp, tp, anth)
  • Lost Stars 2, (Dec 2004, ed. Jean Marie Stine, publ. Renaissance E Books, 1-58873-546-X, $4.99, 249pp, ebook, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n06_1945-07_sas

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OPUS#202 Deconventionalizers, The

OPUS: #202
Title: The Deconventionalizers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
“Nobody cared anything about public opinion, so -“–TOC
“When people stopped giving a hang about public opinion, they just went ahead and said and did the very strangest things!”

Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 27, no. 2, Summer 1945, (Aug 1945, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: Marchioni

ebook: https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV27N021945Su

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OPUS#201 Invaders from the Monster World

OPUS: #201
Title: Invaders from the Monster World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: novelette
“There was only one thing worse than having monsters in your hair; that was having no some to drink?”
“There was only one thing that could make Jim Pollock face the awful giantas of the monster world – that one thing was … some!”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 19, no. 2, June 1945, (Jun 1945, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 212pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 80-111. Cover: Robert Gibson Jones; ill. by Bob Richmond
  • Thrilling Science Fiction Adventures No. 14, Fall 1969, (1969, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Judith Lawrence

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v19n02_1945-06.Ziff-Daviscape1736

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OPUS#200 Shining Land, The [BC#1]

OPUS: #200
Title: The Shining Land
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: short story
Series: Brian Cullan (BC)
Series number: #1
“There is a strange, inseeable Elysium that exists out in the western sea, home of a great pre-human race!”
“Through the glowing, unearthly haze was an island below them – in an ocean that had no islands!”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 5, May 1945, (May 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 98pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 30-41. Cover: Pete Kuhlhoff; Illust: Dolgov

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1945may-00030
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n05_1945-05

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OPUS#199 Red Sun of Danger [CF#18]

OPUS: #199
Title: Red Sun of Danger
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1945
Type: novella
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 18
“From the archives of the mighty Ancients, Curt Newton brings back forgotten Denebian science to balk a greed-maddened schemer who seeks to loose unspeakable terror on the Universe!”
Publication:

  • Startling Stories [v12 #1, Spring 1945] (15¢, 116pp, pulp, cover by Earle Bergey), pp. 11-71. Illustrated by Thomas.
  • Danger Planet, (1968, Brett Sterling, publ. Popular Library, #60-2335, $0.60, 128pp, pb) Cover: Frank Frazetta

Awards:
1996 – Red Sun of Danger [vt Danger Planet] Retro Hugo Award, Novel (Nomination)

Book review:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p.18. “Even though Captain Future’s own magazine had been dropped from publication, the character proved so popular that other novels were still written about him and appeared from time to time in the pages of Startling Stories. I understand this one was written by Edmond Hamilton, the originator of the series, under this house pseudonym for some unknown reason or other. This novel is typical of its kind, the usual fast-paced wild adventures among the inhabitants of various alien worlds, with a hint of mystery in this one, and even vaguely Lovecraftian overtones with the temporary revival in the final chapter of the Kangas, those mighty beings who once ruled the Universe before the rise of man or even man’s immediate predecessors. Reprinted in 1968 in paperback by Popular Library as Danger Planet. “

ebook: https://archive.org/details/StartlingStoriesV12N01Spring1945

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OPUS#198 Priestess of the Labyrinth

OPUS: #198
Title: Priestess of the Labyrinth
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1945
Type: novelette
“When you hear the blood-chilling bull-bellow you’ll know you’re in the haunt of the Minotaur – from which no man can escape.” — TOC
“The ancient world dreaded the Labyrinth for in it strange magic worked and horror walked curing ways.”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 38, no. 3, January 1945, (Jan 1945, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 100pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 8-26. Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Brundage

 

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v38n03_1945-01