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OPUS#189 World With a Thousand Moons, The

OPUS: #189
Title: The World with a Thousand Moons
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novelette
“There was terrible danger among the moons circling this world, but even greater menace on its surface.”-TOC
“Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasted a thousand moons”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 16, no. 12, December 1942, (Dec 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Ned Hadley
  • The World with a Thousand Moons, (May 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Wildside Press, 978-1-4344-0971-3, $3.99, 56pp, tp)
    The World with a Thousand Moons, (May 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #32317, ebook
  • TO THE STARS-& BEYOND, [1989] *Not Yet Published

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OPUS#188 Lost City of Burma

OPUS: #188
Title: Lost City of Burma
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“Deep inside Burma was a great secret! – and when the secret came aout it meant hell for the Japs!”–TOC
“The Japs stormed on until they faced the legendary Flame of Life, then all hell rode the Burma Road”

「ビルマのジャングル深部で、アメリカ人と日本人が、互いに競いあって”生命の炎”を捜す。日本人のほうが先に発見するのだが、彼は”炎”に捕らえられて、戻ることができなくなってしまう。」 – 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. 208
Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 4, no. 12, December 1942, (Dec 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: H. W. McCauley

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 41. “An American and a Jap seek the Flame of Life, an Asian superstition about a fire which confers immortality. The Jap wishes to use the religious force of the Flame to control the Asians, and the American is_trying to stop him. They find a lost city deep in Burma where the Jap enlists the aid of an unsettled faction in penetrating to the land of immortal serpent men who guard the Flame. The Flame is a radioactive geyser, and the Jap becomes immortal and plans to return with his forces. But the American has the last laugh! The immortal men cannot stray far from the Flame without great pain.”

ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=68340

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OPUS#187 Through Invisible Barriers

OPUS: #187
Title: Through Invisible Barriers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“Doctor Percival Withers, the Caspar Milquetoast of Physics, Asserts Himself with an Atomic Vengeance When Dastardly Foreign Agents Plot Death to the United Nations!”

Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 23, no. 1, October 1942, (Oct 1942, ed. Oscar J. Friend, $0.15, 132pp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: MUR

ebook: https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV23N01194210

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OPUS#186 Planets in Peril [CF#12]

OPUS: #186
Title: Planets in Peril
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1969
Type: Novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 12

“Through and Unguessable Abyss Fraught with Peril, Curt Newton and the Futuremen Set Out to ave the Remnants of a Great Civilization from Suicide and Destruction!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 4, no.3, Fall 1942, (Oct 1942, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Rudolph Belarski; Illust: Morey
  • Planets in Peril, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2416, $0.60, 128pp, pb) Cover: Herbert J. Bruck
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OPUS#185 Daughter of Thor, The

OPUS: #185
Title: The Daughter of Thor
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“Lust for conquest flushed hot in Nazi breasts – the Norse gods confused it with the glory of combat”–TOC
“With the coming of the Nazi invaders, war came once again to the gods; who loved to fight. But how could they know which was the right side? Should they fight Nazis?”

「この作品で面白いのは、神々は最初、戦争好きなナチの側につくのだが、ナチの虐殺と欺瞞を知るにおよんで、逆の側にまわるという展開だ」 – 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. 208
Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 4, no. 8, August 1942, (Aug 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 10-47. Cover: Robert Gibson Jones

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 207. “An American pilot who has just escaped from a Nazi prison in Norway is fighting one of his pursuers when both men are taken by Brunhild, daughter of Thor, to Valhalla. The robust gods in Valhalla are happy to hear that there is a war on and decide to help the Nazis since the American professes to be peaceloving. As they approach a battle, however, they are appalled by Nazi butchery and trickery, and decide to help the gallant Norse fighting for their homeland.”

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/FantasticAdventures-1942aug-00010
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OPUS#184 Quest in Time, The

OPUS: #184
Title: The Quest in Time
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“She lay in the coffin as one dead; and around her moved the wraiths of dead Cortez and Monterume”–TOC
“There before Nick Clark lay the body of Kay Madison; was she dead, or had she really gone 400 years into Mexico’s past?”

Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 4, no. 6, June 1942, (Jun 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Malcolm Smith; Illust : Jay Jackson
  • Science Fantasy, Winter 1971, (1971, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.60, 132pp, digest, magazine)

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 32. “A Scientist has invented a way of separating the mind from the body and sending it back in time where it can attach itself to and dominate another body. The scientist’s associate talks the scientist into sending him back to look for Montezuma’s treasure, which they will then use for further scientific research. When he doesn’t return, the scientist’s daughter and her fiance follow him and learn that as an Inca prince he is trying to learn the secret of the treasure for his own selfish purposes.”

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OPUS#183 Comet Kings, The [CF#11]

OPUS: #183
Title: The Comet Kings
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1969
Type: Novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 11
“Trapped in the Depths of Halley’s Comet, the Futuremen Battle Fourth-Dimensional Monsters in a Titanic Struggle to Save the System’s Solar Energy!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 4, no. 2, Summer 1942, (Jul 1942, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), Cover: Belarski ; Illust: Wesso
  • The Comet Kings, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2407, $0.60, 127pp, pb) Cover: Herbert J. Bruck
  • Captain Future, Summer 1942, (May 2008, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Adventure House, 1-59798-174-5, $14.95, 128pp, tp, anth) Cover: Earle Bergey
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OPUS#182 Treasure on Thunder Moon

OPUS: #182
Title: Treasure on Thunder Moon
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“Thunder Moon was the Hell of the solar system, and these men had to brave it in a condemned wreck”-TOC
“It’s hell to be told 37 is too old to fly the void when you know where a great treasure lies”
「現代アメリカの作家エドモンド・ハミルトンの小説「月の宝庫」では、失業した惑星空間の住人－宇宙船の舵手とパイロットが、天王星の衛星の一つに旅行し、そこでおどろくべき物質－他のすべての物体を引っ張るかわりに、それを反ぱつする物体－を発見したことが語られている」ー『宇宙船の旅 : 空飛ぶ実験室』 / M.ワシリエフ 著[他] 共立出版, 1957, p. 26.
「現役を退いた久しい元宇宙探検家たちが、火山と溶岩の衛星、天王星のオベロンへ、太陽系稀鉱石のLeviumを探しに出かける話。活劇ではあるが、かなりしんみりした展開で、なかなか良い味だ」-岡田正也『SF雑誌99の謎』（ネオ・ベム 2014）
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 16, no. 4, April 1942, (Apr 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 276pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Robert Fuqua; Illust: Malcom Smith
  • Treasure on Thunder Moon / Trail of the Astrogar Jan 2013 ed. Edmond Hamilton, Henry Hasse Armchair Fiction (Armchair Fiction Double Novel #86) 978-1-61287-134-9, $12.95, 200 tp, anth

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v16n04_1942-04_cape1736_

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OPUS#181 Outlaws of the Moon [CF#10]

OPUS: #181
Title: Outlaws of the Moon
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1969
Type: Novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 10
“Curt Newton Leads His Valiant Band of Futuremen in the Thrilling Campaign to Preserve a Priceless Lunar Heritage!”–TOC
“Curt Newton Leads His Valiant Band of Futuremen in the Thrilling Fight to Preserve a Priceless Lunar Heritage! Follow the World’s Greatest Space-Farer, Captain Future, as He Embarks on the Most Perilous Exploits of His Career”–TOC

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 1942, (Apr 1942, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle K. Bergey; Illust: Orban.
  • Outlaws of the Moon, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2399, $0.60, 128pp, pb)

Review:

  • Vision of Tomorrow, no. 5, 1970 [Australian Sci-Fi magazine]
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OPUS#180 Wacky World

OPUS: #180
Title: Wacky World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: short story
“If ever there was a more cockeyed world than Mars, these two explorers didn’t wat to see it!”-TOC
“Lester and Hoskins crossed the void and landed on the bleak and forbidding surface of the plenet Mars. But they found no welcome; rather, and incredibly and nightmarish population bent only upon – revenge!”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 16, no. 3, March 1942, (Mar 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Robert Fuqua; Illust: Rod Ruth
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 30, no. 4, April 1956, (Apr 1956, ed. Howard Browne, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.50, 260pp, Digest, magazine),  pp. 61-75, 83. Cover: Edward Valigursky
  • Science Fiction Adventure Classics, No. 8, Fall 1969, (1969, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 16-31. Cover: Frank R. Paul

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v16n03_1942-03_cape1736_