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OPUS#179 Quest Beyond the Stars [CF#9]

OPUS: #179
Title: Quest Beyond the Stars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1969
Type: Novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 9
“Ride With Curt Newton, the World’s Greatest Space-Farer, and the Futurmen as They Leave the Known Star Trails to Penetrate the Source of Cosmic Rays, the Very Core of the Universe!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 3, no. 3, Winter 1942, (Jan 1942, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), Cover: Bergey; Illust: Orban
  • Quest Beyond the Stars, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2389, $0.60, 142pp, pb) Cover: Jeff Jones

Reviews:

  • Review by Ron Goulart (1969) in Venture Science Fiction Magazine, August 1969
  • Paskow, D.C., “Quest beyond the stars,” in: Luna Monthly, no. 1, June 1969, p. 31.
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OPUS#178 Dreamer's Worlds

OPUS: #178
Title: Dreamer’s Worlds
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novelette
“Swift Fantasy Novelet of a Dreamer and His Dream”
“Surely the world of Thar – its strange cities and enormous mountains, its turquoise seas, twin moons and crimson and crimson sun – is nothing but a dream? And yet…”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 36, no. 2, November 1941, (Nov 1941, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hannes Bok; Illust: Dolgov
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)

ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_36/Issue_2/Dreamer%27s_Worlds
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v36n02_1941-11

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OPUS#177 Day of the Micro-Men

OPUS: #177
Title: Day of the Micro-Men
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: short story
Publications:

  • Science Fiction, Vol. 2, no. 6, September 1941, (Sep 1941, ed. Robert W. Lowndes, publ. Columbia Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Doolin or Dolgov???
  • TO THE STARS-& BEYOND!, [1989] *not yet published

“Into the world of the microscopic – thence to the very stars; that was the fate of Gurth, who would sacrifice his all for the freedom of the Micro-Men!”–TOC
“To Gurth, the freedom of his race was the aim of his life – and he faces tortures unbearable to bring the Micro-Men into their own – until he finds the very Earth shrinking beneath him!”

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OPUS#176 Lost World of Time, The [CF#8]

OPUS: #176
Title: The Lost World of Time
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: short fiction
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 8
“The Futuremen Race Into the Past to Answer a Cry for Help That Has Traveled Across a Hundred Million Years! Follow Captain Future as the Greatest Enigma of All Time Transports Him into the Forgotten Ages”–TOC
“The Futuremen Race Into the Past to Answer a Cry for Help That Has Traveled Across a Hundred Million Years!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 3, no. 2, Fall 1941, (Oct 1941, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: George Rozen or Bergey?; Illust: Wesso
  • The Collected Captain Future Man of Tomorrow, Volume Two, (Dec 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-40-4, $40.00, xx+707pp, hc, coll) Cover: Earle K. Bergey
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OPUS#175 Son of Two Worlds

OPUS: #175
Title: Son of Two Worlds
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novella
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries
“Young Stephen Drew Crosses Space to Visit an Earth. He Has Never Seen – and Finds that His Destination Proves the Planet of the Double Cross! Follow the Adventures of as Earthman Who Views a Futuristic World of Wonder – and Longs for Another Sphere.”–TOC
“Young Stephen Drew crosses space to visit and Earth he has never seen – and finds that his destination proves the planet of the double cross!”

Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 21, no. 2, August 1941, (Aug 1941, ed. Oscar J. Friend, $0.15, 132pp, magazine) Cover: Rudolph Belarski; Illust: Finlay
  • 3 from Out There, (Mar 1959, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Crest Books / Fawcett World Library, #s282, $0.35, 192pp, pb, anth) Cover: Richard Powers
  • 3 from Out There, (1959, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Pyramid Books) ???
  • 3 from Out There, (Jun 1964, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Panther, #1057, 3/6, 207pp, pb, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV20N03194108

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OPUS#173 Star Trail to Glory [CF#6]

OPUS: #173
Title: Star Trail to Glory
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 6
“Follow the Curt Newton and the Futuremen Along a Multi-Million Miles of Stellar Speedway as They Streak Around the System in There Greatest Race for Justice!”–TOC
“Follow the Futuremen Along a Multi-Million Miles of Stellar Speedway as They Streak Around the System in There Greatest Race for Justice!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 2, no. 3, Spring 1941, (Apr 1941, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Bergey Illust: Wesso
  • The Collected Captain Future Man of Tomorrow, Volume Two, (Dec 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-40-4, $40.00, xx+707pp, hc, coll) Cover: Earle K. Bergey
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OPUS#174 Magician of Mars, The [CF#7]

OPUS: #174
Title: The Magician of Mars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1969
Type: NOVEL
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 7
“Renegades of Nine Worlds Crush Out From Interplanetary Prison in a Weird Quest for a Phantom Treasure! Follow the Futuremen as the Greatest Feud of All Times Catapults Them into the Fifth Dimension”–TOC
“Renegades of Nine Worlds Crush Out From Interplanetary Prison in a Weird Quest for a Phantom Treasure!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 3, no. 1, Summer 1941, (Jul 1941, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle K. Bergey; Illust: Wesso
  • The Magician of Mars, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2450, $0.60, 128pp, pb) Cover: Herbert J. Bruck
  • Captain Future, Summer 1941, (Jun 2009, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Adventure House, 978-1-59798-241-2, $14,95, 128pp, tp, anth) Cover: Earle K. Bergey
  • The Collected Captain Future Man of Tomorrow, Volume Two, (Dec 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-40-4, $40.00, xx+707pp, hc, coll) Cover: Earle K. Bergey

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Captain_Future_v03n01_1941-Sumer

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OPUS#172 Yank at Valhalla, A

OPUS: #172
Title: A Yank at Valhalla
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1950
Type: novella
Variant Titles: The Monsters of Juntonheim (1950) – Edmond Hamilton
“… American Invades a … Land That Time Forgotten … Finds a Wonder … That Is Forbidden to All Mortals!”–TOC
“The gods knew a science that was older than man … but they looked to the human intruder in order to find their salvation”
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 5, no. 1, January 1941, (Jan 1941, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: E. K. Bergey; Illust: Wesso
  • The Monsters of Juntonheim, (1950, Edmond Hamilton, publ. World Distributors / Sydney Pemberton, 1/6, 160pp, pb)
  • Fantastic Story Magazine, Vol. 5, no. 1, January 1953, (Jan 1953, ed. Samuel Mines, publ. Best Books, Inc., $0.25, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle K. Bergey
  • A Yank at Valhalla / The Sun Destroyers, (Mar 1973, Edmond Hamilton, Ross Rocklynne, publ. Ace (Ace Double #93900), #93900, $0.95, 128 + 156pp, dos, omni)
  • A Yank at Valhalla, (2003, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Renaissance E Books, 1-58873-167-7, $4.99, ebook)
  • A Yank at Valhalla, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-0-505-51336-6, $4.00, ebook)
  • King of Stars, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni) Cover: Doug Chaffee

Reviews:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 9. “Excellent mixture of lost race adventure and mythology. Keith Masters discovers a hitherto unexplored region at the North Pole where various prominent figures out of Norse mythology—both the malevolent giants of Jotunheim [i.e. Juntonheim] and the rugged AEsir gods of Asgard—are still alive and well, kept in a state of perpetual immortality by radiations from Muspelheim, the radioactive subterranean world directly beneath their land, from whence all life on Earth originally came. Much of the following plot concerns the escape of Loki, the Norse god of evil, in this version a brilliant but renegade AEsir scientist attempting to harness the forces of nature in order to control first Asgard and then the world, from the seemingly impregnable prison in which his fellow Asgardians have trapped him with his two horrid pets, the Fenris wolf and the Midgard serpent, terrifying monsters endowed with superior size and intelligence by their master’s scientific magic. Due to the machinations of his various allies among the Jotuns, of course, Loki does ultimately escape from his scientifically-induced imprisonment, and from then on the story’s conclusion is well-nigh inevitable. Ragnarok, Twilight of the Gods, comes, and the all-too-mortal immortals of Asgard go down to their last defeat, valiantly dragging their enemies with them into the darkness, while the subterranean world of Muspelheim disrupts into final cataclysmic destruction beneath them. Published in paperback first in 1950 as The Monsters of Jotunheim [i.e. Juntonheim] by World Distributors/Sydney Pemberton, Manchester, and then in 1973, under its original title, by Ace as part of a double novel.
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ebook: BookReader

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OPUS#171 Mystery Moon

OPUS: #171
Title: Mystery Moon
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novelette
“If there justice in the saying “life father, like son# when you are the son of a famous space pirates?”-TOC
“The lure of space travel was in Eric Rand’s veins. Somewhere out there lay the answer to his birth. Why was it forbidden to hin?”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 15, no. 1, January 1941, (Jan 1941, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Fuqua

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v15n01_1941-01.Ziff-Daviscape1736

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OPUS#170 Horse That Talked, The

OPUS: #170
Title: The Horse That Talked
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novelette
“China Boy wasn’t that kind of a horse you meet every day. He could talk, and he could drink. And as it turned out, he could do both a good deal faster than he could run”
“China Boy was a racehorse – by his own admission. But maybe China Boy was a bit inclined to boast -” TOC
Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 3, no. 1, January 1941, (Jan 1941, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Harold W. McCauley; Illust : Jay Jackson

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 15. “A financier wants to foreclose on the property of a dead scientist’s daughter because it is rich in mineral deposits. The scientist was experimenting with speech in animals, however. and left a race horse which talks and which likes alcohol. Since it is hungover, the horse must use its power of speech to win the mortgage money in a big race.”

ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=32126