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OPUS#084 Intelligence Undying

OPUS: #084
Title: Intelligence Undying
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: short story
「自分の記憶と知識を新生児に移植することで、世代を超えた人生を送りつける科学者を描いた」 – 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. 140

“In this story, we read about a succession of generations, extending through the centuries. It presents a most impressive picture for the future of our world, as the generations carry the message of extraordinary and increasing intelligence down through the ages.” — AMZ 10(9)

“How would you like to live forever? Or have at least a part of you live forever? Naturally, the world would be lucky to have you around so long, you being so loaded with smarts, and all. But maybe everyone would come to depend too much on your venerable and constant support. Would it be a blessing or a curse? Can there be too much of a good thing? Read on.”–Fantastic, Vol. 27, no. 5

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 10, no. 9, April 1936, (Apr 1936, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Teck Publications, Inc., $0.25, 148pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 13-26. Cover: Leo Morey; illustrated by Leo Morey
  • Amazing Stories, April 1966, (Apr 1966, ed. Joseph Ross, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 196pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 45-63. Cover: Paul , Fuqua , Wesso
  • Fantastic, Vol. 27, no. 5, April 1979, (Apr 1979, ed. Omar Gohagen, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $1.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 18-38.

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/FantasticV27N05197904

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OPUS#052 Space-Rocket Murders

OPUS: #052
Title: Space-Rocket Murders
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novella
“Building a ship that will successfully travel across the void and safely land on another body in our vast universe is not the only consideration that should be given the problems of interplanetary travel – when this new dream of scientists is finally realized. It might be well to give some thought to our method of approach and our plan of action, if and when we succeed in reaching another planet – if there should perchance be life and intelligence where we land. Our well-known author gives us in this new amazing story some very vital things to think about.”

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 7, no. 7, October 1932, (Oct 1932, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Teck Publications, Inc., $0.25, 100pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey; illustrated by Leo Morey
  • Science Fiction Classics, Fall 1968, (1968, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume07Number07

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OPUS#034 Man Who Saw the Future, The

OPUS: #034
Title: The Man Who Saw the Future
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: short story
Variant title: The Man Who Saw Everything
“How many men have had to suffer, in the past, for their belief in things too fantastic for those not gifted with their powers of imagination, which were regards as evil and often rewarded with death! A few centries ago, far-seeing prophets like Roger Bacon dreamed of to-day’s wonders, and their predictions were condemned as supernatural visions instead of being recognised as inspired glimpses of the future. The versatile Mr. Hamilton gives us a novel little story in this vein.”

“He witnessed the wonders of a time that would not come for centuries … and such things were the Devil’s work”–TOC of Tale of Wonder
“He told of an age of a thousand marvels that had yet to be … and they burned him as a sorcerer.”–Tales of Wonder

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 5, no. 7, October 1930, (Oct 1930, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Experimenter Publications, Inc., $0.25, 100pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey; Illust : Morey
  • Tales of Wonder, #11, (Jul 1940, ed. Walter H. Gillings, publ. World’s Work, pulp, magazine) Cover: Turner
  • Amazing Stories, February 1961, (Feb 1961, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 148pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Alex Schomburg; Illust : Morey
  • Strange Signposts, (1966, ed. Roger Elwood, Sam Moskowitz, publ. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 319pp, hc, anth)
  • Other Worlds, Other Times, (1969, ed. Sam Moskowitz, Roger Elwood, publ. Macfadden-Bartell, #75-238, $0.75, 192pp, pb, anth) Cover: Jack Faragasso
  • Science Fiction Adventure Classics, Winter 1970, pp. 3-17. (1970, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul
  • Other Worlds, Other Times, (Feb 1974, ed. Sam Moskowitz, Roger Elwood, publ. Manor Books, #95310, $0.95, 192pp, pb, anth)
  • The Fantastic Pulps, (Nov 1975, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Gollancz, 0-575-02000-8, £4.50, 419pp, hc, anth)
  • The Fantastic Pulps, (1976, ed. Peter Haining, publ. St. Martin’s Press, 0-312-28175-7, $10.00, 419pp, hc, anth)
  • The Fantastic Pulps, (Oct 1976, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Vintage Books, 0-394-72109-8, $2.95, 418pp, pb, anth)
  • Amazing Science Fiction Anthology: The Wonder Years 1926-1935, (Jan 1987, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, publ. TSR, 0-88038-439-5, $3.95, 316pp, pb, anth) Cover: Elmore
  • Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 012, (Mar 2009, ed. LibriVox, publ. LibriVox, audio (MP3), anth)
  • 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
  • Short Science Fiction Collection 19, (Jun 2009, ed. LibriVox, publ. LibriVox, audio (MP3), anth)
  • The Man Who Saw the Future, (Dec 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #28062, ebook)
  • The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

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OPUS#033 World Atavism

OPUS: #033
Title: World Atavism
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
Note: Amazing Stories, August 1930, illustrated by Frank R. Paul.
“The Sun’s rays have been credited with many beneficial powers. It is a universally conceded fact that the sun is necessary to good health; not only because of its warmth-giving rays, but also because of some other element, directly a health-giving factor, which has since been more or less successfully duplicated in the laboratory – in the form of Alpine lamps and what not. It is also said, however, that there are certain properties in the rays of the sun which might be used as life^giving rays. As far as we know, nothing definite has been established on this score yet. Who knows what other helpful possibilities are hidden in the various ether vibrations produced by the sun? Edmond Hamilton has a brand new idea, which he elaborates and weaves into a fascinating story of scientific fiction Certainly it seems to us to be of absorbing interest.”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 5, no.5, August 1930, (Aug 1930, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Experimenter Publications, Inc., $0.25, 96pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: H. W. Wesso; Illust: Paul
  • Science Fiction Classics, No. 3, Winter 1967, (1967, ed. Ralph Adris, publ. Magazine Productions, $0.50, 130pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey
  • The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume05Number05
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v05n05_1930-08_-_Teck

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OPUS#029 Universe Wreckers, The

OPUS: #029
Title: The Universe Wreckers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novel
“We sat against in our chairs before the control-panel, whitely to my left, gazing through the big window before us … soaring past the limits of earth’s atmosphere.” – May 1930
“That globe of metal, Marlin – it hears him, answers him! The thing must be alive!” – June 1930
“In an instant Marlin and I had clambered to the drifting cylinder’s edge and to the open outside door” — July 1930
Magazine Appearances:
The Universe Wreckers (Part 1 of 3) (1930) – Edmond Hamilton
The Universe Wreckers (Part 2 of 3) (1930) – Edmond Hamilton
The Universe Wreckers (Part 3 of 3) (1930) – Edmond Hamilton
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 5, no. 2, May 1930, (May 1930, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Experimenter Publications, Inc., $0.25, 100pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey; Illust : Wesso
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 5, no. 3, June 1930, (Jun 1930, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Experimenter Publications, Inc., $0.25, 96pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey; Illust : Wesso
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 5, no. 4, July 1930, (Jul 1930, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Experimenter Publications, Inc., $0.25, 100pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: L. Morey; Illust : Wesso
  • The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume05Number02
ebook: https://archive.org/stream/AmazingStoriesVolume05Number03
ebook: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume05Number04

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OPUS#008 Comet Doom, The

OPUS: #008
Title: The Comet Doom
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novelette
“For a moment he struggled frantically, then heard a hoarse cry, and wrenched his head up to see a dark shape, speeding across the plateau from the opposite edge. It was Coburn. Twisting in the remorseless grip of the two with whom he battled, he had a flashing glimpse of Coburn racing toward the machine, and then he uttered a cry of agony. From one of the hovering cones above, a shaft of the light-ray had flashed down and it struck Coburn squarely. A moment he was visible, aureoled in a hale of blinding light …”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 2, no. 10, January 1928, (Jan 1928, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Experimenter Publishing Co., $0.25, 96pp, Bedsheet, magazine), pp. 64-100. Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Frank R. Paul
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 40, no. 3, December 1965, (Dec 1965, ed. Joseph Ross, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 164pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Castellon
  • Comets, (1986, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, publ. Signet / New American Library, 0-451-14129-6, $3.95, 339pp, pb, anth)
  • 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 (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years