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OPUS#246 Tattooed Man, The

OPUS: #246
Title: The Tattooed Man
Author: Alexander Blade (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1957
Type: novella
Note: The Last of The Star Kings
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries

“Legend said that somewhere in the depths of space was a world of wealth and power beyond imagination. It was also a world of danger and -”

Publication:

  • Imaginative Tales [v4 #2, March 1957] (35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Malcolm Smith), pp. 6-65.

ebook: http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2569

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OPUS#244 Last Call for Doomsday

OPUS: #244
Title: Last Call for Doomsday!
Author: S. M. Tenneshaw (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1956
Type: novella
“Wales knew life of Earth must end – yet to save humanity meant panic and chaos!”-TOC
“Wales saw men around him become savage beasts, shooting, looting, killing in frantic hysteria. Men without hope, they awaited the -”

Publication:

  • Imagination [v7 # 6, No.52, December 1956] (35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Lloyd N. Rognan)

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OPUS#243 Cosmic Kings, The

OPUS: #243
Title: The Cosmic Kings
Author: Alexander Blade (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1956
Type: novella
“Across the vast reaches of space Bryant fled from the Varkonid warships. There was one place of refuge, a forbidden planet rulled by -”

Publications:

  • Imaginative Tales [v3 #6, November 1956] (35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Lloyd Rognan), pp.  8-65.
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OPUS#240 Battle for the Stars

OPUS: #240
Title: Battle for the Stars
Author: Alexander Blade (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1956
Type: novella
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries
“Kirk had never seen the distant planet called Earth, yet his squadron was now ordered there – to stem the outbreak of a galactic war!”
“Galactic war led Kirk’s squadron into deep space, to a remote world called Earth!” – TOC
Publications:

  • Imagination [v7 # 3, No.49, June 1956] (35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Malcolm Smith) , pp. 6-58.
  • Battle for the Stars, (Nov 1961, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, Mead/Torquil, $2.95, 206pp, hc)
  • Battle for the Stars, (Dec 1961, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, Mead/Torquil / SFBC, $1.20, iv+206pp, hc)
  • Battle for the Stars, (1963, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Mayflower-Dell, #0480, 3/6, 190pp, pb)
  • Die Heimat der Astronauten, (1964, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Heinemann, 154pp, pb)
  • Battle for the Stars, (Aug 1964, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Paperback Library, #52-311, $0.50, 159pp, pb)
  • Battle for the Stars, (Dec 1967, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Paperback Library, #52-609, $0.50, 159pp, pb)
  • The Nemesis from Terra / Battle for the Stars, (May 1989, Leigh Brackett, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Tor (Tor Double #8), 0-812-55960-6, $2.95, 107+141pp, dos, omni) Cover: Bryn Barnard , Tony Roberts
  • Battle for the Stars, (Aug 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-0-812-55960-6, $4.00, ebook) Cover: Doug Chaffee
  • Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol, (Aug 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni) Cover: Doug Chaffee

Reviews:

    • Review by Alfred Bester (1962) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 22(2):89-90. February 1962
    • Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1962) in Analog Science Fact :  Science Fiction, 69(4):161. June 1962 , reprinted in: Analog Science Fact : Science Fiction, October 1962 (UK), (1962)
    • Review by Orson Scott Card (1989) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1989

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OPUS#212 Never the Twain Shall Meet

OPUS: #212
Title: Never the Twain Shall Meet
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1946
Type: short story
“John Farrel keeps his tryst with Ylleen, whose love means death”–TOC
“Out in space John Farrel keeps his tryst with Ylleen, gorgeous Martian girl whose love means — sudden death!”
Publication:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories [v29 #1, Fall 1946] (15¢, 116pp, pulp, cover by Earle Bergey), pp. 60-69. Illustrated by Marchioni.

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v29n01_1946-Fall/page/n59/mode/2up?view=theater

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OPUS#199 Red Sun of Danger [CF#18]

OPUS: #199
Title: Red Sun of Danger
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1945
Type: novella
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 18
“From the archives of the mighty Ancients, Curt Newton brings back forgotten Denebian science to balk a greed-maddened schemer who seeks to loose unspeakable terror on the Universe!”
Publication:

  • Startling Stories [v12 #1, Spring 1945] (15¢, 116pp, pulp, cover by Earle Bergey), pp. 11-71. Illustrated by Thomas.
  • Danger Planet, (1968, Brett Sterling, publ. Popular Library, #60-2335, $0.60, 128pp, pb) Cover: Frank Frazetta

Awards:
1996 – Red Sun of Danger [vt Danger Planet] Retro Hugo Award, Novel (Nomination)

Book review:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p.18. “Even though Captain Future’s own magazine had been dropped from publication, the character proved so popular that other novels were still written about him and appeared from time to time in the pages of Startling Stories. I understand this one was written by Edmond Hamilton, the originator of the series, under this house pseudonym for some unknown reason or other. This novel is typical of its kind, the usual fast-paced wild adventures among the inhabitants of various alien worlds, with a hint of mystery in this one, and even vaguely Lovecraftian overtones with the temporary revival in the final chapter of the Kangas, those mighty beings who once ruled the Universe before the rise of man or even man’s immediate predecessors. Reprinted in 1968 in paperback by Popular Library as Danger Planet. “

ebook: https://archive.org/details/StartlingStoriesV12N01Spring1945

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OPUS#195 Magic Moon [CF#16]

OPUS: #195
Title: Magic Moon
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1944
Type: novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 16
“A Cruel Plot to Seize the Satellite Styx, Third Moon of Pluto, and Enslave Peaceful Natives, Sends Captain Future and His Loyal Aides Out on the Most Dangerous Adventure of Their Careers!”

Publication:

  • Captain Future [v6 #1, Winter 1944] (15¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Earle K. Bergey), pp. 15-92. Illustrated by Orban.

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OPUS#193 Star of Dread, The [CF#15]

OPUS: #193
Title: The Star of Dread
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1943
Type: novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 15
“The world’s greatest space-farers battle to expose a dangerous secret menacing mankind and face desperate risks as they pursue two scheming miscreants across the void!”–TOC

Publication:

  • Captain Future [v5 #3, Summer 1943] (15¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Earle K. Bergey), pp. 13-90. Illustrated by Thomas.
  • Captain Future, Summer 1943, (Oct 2009, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Adventure House, 978-1-59798-242-9, $14.95, 128pp, tp, anth) Cover: Earle K. Bergey
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OPUS#158 World Without Sex

OPUS: #158
Title: World Without Sex
Author: Robert O. Wentworth (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1940
Type: short story
“Many a person has spoken in jest of the war between the sexes. Thurber has produced some of his funniest cartoons on that subject: the inability of the male to comprehend the female and vice versa. Nobody can fail to notice the means by which each sex plots to ensnare the other; and intrigue which extends throughout every medium – dress, drama, conduct, arts, etc. There have been cultures in various places – semi-primitives in isolated lands still testify – where there exists an actual hostility between the sexes, where for instance women maintain secret codes and languages, live separately from the community of men. To this day, modern American males maintain lodges from whose portals women are barred and whose affairs are conducted which codes and ceremonies no woman may hope to learn. There is therefore nothing at all impossible about Edmond Hamilton’s startling story of a period twenty thousand years from now. Nothing impossible, we repeat, but we certainly hope that it will always remain at least improbable.”

Publication:

  • Marvel Tales [v2 #1, May 1940] (15¢, 116pp, pulp, cover by ?)
  • Sensuous Science Fiction from the Weird and Spicy Pulps, (Dec 1984, ed. Sheldon Jaffery, publ. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 0-87972-306-8, $8.95, 164pp, tp, anth)
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OPUS#145 Short-Wave Madness

OPUS: #145
Title: Short-Wave Madness
Author: Robert Castle (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1939
Type: short story
Dr Gorrell’s great discovery gave him the powers of a god! All the secrets of the Universe were to be his, until that mighty, cosmic voice from out of the Infinite spoke: “You have gone to far!”–TOC
“Are there any limits to the progress of mankind? Are there any secrets that are forever forbidden to the minds of this world? Dr Gorrell finds a horrible affirmative in the realm beyond space!”

Publication:

  • Science Fiction [v1 #2, June 1939] (15¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Frank R. Paul), pp. 57-61. Illustrated by Frank R. Paul.