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OPUS#256 Dark Backward, The

OPUS: #256
Title: The Dark Backward
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1958
Type: short story
“In winter, on an island off the New England coast, you get used to wind-lashed surf, to hardship and struggle, to the cold, lonely life. Maybe you get so used to it that you don’t want to hear when the bright future calls …”
「未来人が過去への移住を計画する捻りの利いた作品だ」- 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. 174.
Publications:

  • Venture Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 2, no. 3, May 1958, (May 1958, ed. Robert P. Mills, publ. Mercury Press, Inc., $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine)  Cover: M. S. Dollens; Ill : Giunta & Schoenherr
  • Venture Science Fiction [UK], February 1965, (Feb 1965, ed. Ronald R. Wickers, publ. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd, 3/-, 116pp, Digest, magazine)

ebook: http://magicmonkeyboy.blogspot.jp/2012/03/dark-backward-by-edmond-hamilton.html

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OPUS#250 No Earthman I

OPUS: #250
Title: No Earthman I
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1957
Type: novelette
「異世界の荒涼たる風景を描ききって[いる]」-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. 174.

“When the Wind People turned on the Earthmen, John Tepper ran. But he ran in hatred, not terror – for he looked on Tharinan as his planet now, and he would not be driven from it ….”

Publications:

  • Venture Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 1, no. 6, November 1957, (Nov 1957, ed. Robert P. Mills, publ. Fantasy House, Inc., $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Emsh
  • Venture Science Fiction [UK], June 1964, (Jun 1964, ed. Ronald R. Wickers, publ. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd, 2/6, 116pp, Digest, magazine)