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OPUS#143 Armies from the Past [ED#2]

OPUS: #143
Title: Armies from the Past
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Type: novelette
Series: Eathan Drew (ED)
Series number: #2
“An exciting story of time-travel and a world enslaved!”–TOC
“A weird-scientific tale of adventure, and the clash of armed men – an exciting story of time-travel and a world enslaved – a narrative of our planet two million years hence”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 33, No. 4, April 1939, (Apr 1939, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Weird Tales, $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 61-82. Cover: Virgil Finlay; Illust: Delay
  • Lost Fantasies 6, (1977, ed. Robert Weinberg, publ. Robert Weinberg (Lost Fantasies #6), $5.00, 96pp, tp, anth) Cover: Marcus Boas

ebook: http://www.pulpmags.org/PDFs/WT_1939_04/index.html
ebook: https://archive.org/details/wt_1939_04

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OPUS#004 Atomic Conquerors, The

OPUS: #004
Title: The Atomic Conquerors
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novelette
“A blinding shaft of blue light stabbed out from the disk’s edge and struck the struggling pair.”
「スコットランドで発見された遺物の碑文から、原子のなかに邪悪な種族の存在することが明らかになったあと、封印が解けたことにより、この種族が地球の征服に乗り出す顛末が語られる。太陽系を原子構造と類似するものと見て、原子のなかにひとつの宇宙を見いだす類推の美学は、本篇において太陽系をひとつの原子とする超越宇宙をもちだすにいたった。本篇で注目すべきは、ダーレスの構築するクトゥルー神話のSF的先駆作品となっていることである」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　1　（青心社, 1990） p. 334
「超宇宙（マクロ・コズミック）の人類出現す！！　ハミルトンが得意としたセンス・オブ・ワンダーに満ちたSFの一篇」 — 那智史郎・宮壁定雄　『ウィアード・テールズ』　別巻　（国書刊行会, 1988）  p. 107
「月・極小世界・異次元からの侵略に地球をさらしていたが、きっとシュロッセルの書いた「外部からの侵略者」の触発されたのだろう」- 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. 78
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 9, no. 2, February 1927, (Feb 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. Barker Petrie, Jr.; Illust: Olnick
  • The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v09n02_1927-02

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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#225 Alien Earth

OPUS: #225
Title: Alien Earth
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1949
Type: novelette
“Hugh Farris, Andre and Lys Berreau are transported into a weird world of eerie plant life, where time is slowed up and the struggle to survive rages madly on!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1949, (Apr 1949, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Standard Magazines, Inc., $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 54-67.
  • Alien Earth and Other Stories, (1969, ed. Roger Elwood, Sam Moskowitz, publ. Macfadden Books, #75-219, $0.75, 208pp, pb, anth) Cover: Jack Faragasso
  • 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
  • Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction, (Apr 1983, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 0-374-31228-1, $12.95, xi+276pp, hc, anth)
  • The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 11, 1949, (Mar 1984, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. DAW Books, 0-87997-918-6, $3.50, 317pp, pb, anth) Cover: Michelangelo Miani
  • The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 11, 1949, (Mar 1984, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. DAW Books, 0-87997-918-6, $3.50, 317pp, pb, anth) Cover: Michelangelo Miani
  • Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction: Sixth Series, (1988, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, 0-517-65754-6, $8.95, 624pp, hc, anth)
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)
  • The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 11, 1949, (date unknown, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. DAW Books, 0-87997-918-6, $3.50, 317pp, pb, anth) Cover: Michelangelo Miani

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1949apr-00054
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OPUS#076 Avenger from Atlantis, The

OPUS: #076
Title: The Avenger from Atlantis
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: novelette
Variant title: The Vengeance of Ulios
“an amazing tale that sweeps across the dusty centuries to our own time”–TOC
“An epic weird tale that begins in ancient Atlantis and sweeps across the centuries through Egypt, Babylon and Rome, up to our own time”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 26, no. 1, July 1935, (Jul 1935, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Binder
  • Weird Tales, (Canada), July 1935
  • The Vengeance of Ulios, The Magic of Atlantis, (Nov 1970, ed. Lin Carter, publ. Lancer, #74699, $0.75, 191pp, pb, anth) Cover: Ron Walotsky
  • Isaac Asimov’s Magical Worlds of Fantasy # 9: Atlantis, (Jan 1988, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Signet / New American Library, 0-451-15144-5, $3.95, 349pp, pb, anth) Cover: J. K. Potter

Reviews:

  • Review by uncredited (1935) in Fantasy Magazine, July 1935

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v26n01_1935-07_ATLPM-Sas

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OPUS#075 Accursed Galaxy, The

OPUS: #075
Title: The Accursed Galaxy
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1935
Type: short story
“Now at last we know why all the other galaxies are fleeing from ours!”-TOC
“In which we hear a tale of eternal punishment which came from space”

Publications:

  • Astounding Stories, Vol. 15, no. 5, July 1935, (Jul 1935, ed. F. Orlin Tremaine, publ. Street & Smith Publications, Inc., $0.20, 164pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; illustrated by Elliot Dold Jr.
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • Before the Golden Age, (1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Robson Books, 0-903895-28-5, £5.95, xix+986pp, hc, anth) Cover: Timothy Jaques
  • Before the Golden Age, (Apr 1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Doubleday, 0-385-02419-3, $16.95, xix+986pp, hc, anth) Cover: Tim Lewis
  • Before the Golden Age, (May 1974, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Doubleday / SFBC, #6173, $4.50, xvi+912pp, hc, anth) Cover: Tim Lewis
  • Before the Golden Age Volume Three, (1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-862-0, £0.75, 287pp, pb, anth)
  • 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)
  • Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930’s: Book 3, (Aug 1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q2525, $1.50, 400pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age, Book 3, (Aug 1975, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, #Q2525, $1.50, 400pp, pb, 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
  • Before the Golden Age Volume Three, (1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Orbit, 0-86007-862-0, £0.95, 400pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age, Book 3, (Jun 1978, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, 0-449-23593-9, $1.95, 400pp, pb, anth)
  • Before the Golden Age, (1988, ed. Isaac Asimov, publ. Black Cat / Macdonald & Co, 0-7481-0196-9, £9.95, 828pp, hc, anth)
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

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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ebook: https://cosmos-serial.com/cosmos-the-serial/chapters-5-17-are-coming-soon/

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OPUS#016 Abysmal Invaders, The

OPUS: #016
Title: The Abysmal Invaders
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1929
Type: novelette
“A horror out of long-dead ages crashes gigantically through the night in an avalanche of destruction and death”–TOC
“Other huge shapes galloped past, carrying annihilation and death across the town.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 13, no. 6, June 1929, (Jun 1929, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; illustrated by Rankin
  • The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v13n06_1929-06_AT-sas

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OPUS#002 Across Space

OPUS: #002
Title: Across Space
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1926
Type: novella
Across Space (Part 1 of 3) (1926) – Edmond Hamilton
Across Space (Part 2 of 3) (1926) – Edmond Hamilton
Across Space (Part 3 of 3) (1926) – Edmond Hamilton
“A shaft of red light stabs the sky, and Mars hurtles in flaming destruction straight toward Earth”-TOC of part 1
“As I whirled around, my eyes met a sight that froze the words on my lips in sheer surprize and terror.”-part 1
“A three-part weird-scientific serial – strange beings in Rano Kao volcano pull the planet Mars from its orbit.”- TOC of part 2
“As I whirled around, my eyes met a sight that froze the words on my lips in sheer, surprize and terror.”-part 2
“A three-part weird-scientific serial – strange beings under Easter Island pull the planet Mars from its orbit”-TOC of part 3
“A great red ray of light stabs across space toward Mars from the crater of Rano Kao volcano on Easter Island, carrying with it the magnetic force of Earth’s northern magnetic pole against the southern magnetic pole of Mars. The red planet is pulled from its orbit and hurtles straight toward Earth.
Dr. Whitley and Professor Allan try to save the Earth from destruction, but are captured by the bat-winged men from Mars who live in the crater of the extinct volcano, and are carried to their city in the bowels of the Earth. There they learn the details of the Martians’ scheme from Dr. Holland, who has been captured years before. The captives plan to escape from their guards (strange, mechanically constructed creatures created by the bat-winged Martians), in a desperate attempt to save the Earth. If they fail – and the chances are a million to one against them – in a few days the atmosphere of Mars will touch that of Earth, and the world will be overrun by Martians flying from their planet to Earth, armed with a crumbling ray to destroy humanity.”-part 3

「九月から三カ月にわたって発表された＜＜宇宙を渡って＞＞シリーズは、この若い作家のあらゆる可能性を示すものだった。売り子が新聞を振り上げながら大声をはりあげている。語り手のアランがふと目をやると、その新聞には大きな活字で”世界の終わり”という見出しが出ている。この時から意外な出来事がはじまるのである。アランはすぐ新聞を買い求めて、公式声明を読む。（中略）けれども衝突は起こらないのである。火星は接近しているのではなかった。実は、地球上には、黎明期以来火星から追放され、地下都市で生活している火星人がいたのである。彼らの科学によって、火星は地球に引き寄せられているのだった。この火星人の存在は、私たちにはまったく知られていない。彼らはイースター島の巨石像に似ている。というのは、この巨石像は、火星人が地球の土を踏んでいた時代の名残りだったのである（イースター島にある巨石像の期限に関して、公認の科学が伏せている新事実を明らかにするのだと主張する作家は少なくなく、この種の馬鹿げた説明は今日ひきもきらぬ有様である）」- ジャック・サドゥール著; 鹿島茂,鈴木秀治訳『現代SFの歴史』(早川書房, 1984.12)　p. 117
「最初に掲載されのは「マムルスの邪神」だが、先に売れたのは「宇宙横断」だった。これは人類が誕生するよりも前に地球に植民していた火星人が、いまも地下の洞窟で生きているという話。彼らは地球を乗っとって、火星を地球近くの軌道まで動かす計画に取りかかっていた。この作品にはハミルトンが十代のころから愛読していたマンジー系雑誌の影響がうかがえるが、彼はその後またたくまに、こうした種類のSFの第一人者としての地位を確立していく。」 – 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. 159
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 3, September 1926, (Sep 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: E. M. Stevenson; Illust: Olnick
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 4, October 1926, (Oct 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: C. Barker Petrie, Jr.; Illust: None
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 8, no. 5, November 1926, (Nov 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: E. M. Stevenson; Illust: Olnick
  • The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook of part 1: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N03192609
ebook of part 2: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N03192609
ebook of part 3: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N05192611