Category Archives: novelette (21-50 pages)

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OPUS#047 Conquest of Two Worlds, A

Title: A Conquest of Two Worlds
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Storylen: novelette
“Earthmen prove that mass murder can be prevented only through universal law backed up by force! A classic reprinted by popular demand” – TOC
“In this outstanding Hall of Fame novelet, Earthmen prove once more that the only way to prevent the grim terror of mass murder is through universal law backed up by force!”
“Fame classic reprinted from Wonder Stories, February, 1932. Tragic account of Earthmen’s ruthless exploitation, brutalization and conquest of the less highly evolved inhabitants of Mars and Jupiter, obviously based upon historical treatment of the Indians” – Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 59
「主人公マーク・ホールキットが自らの信念に従い、温厚で子どものような木星人を搾取する貪欲な宇宙開発を阻止しようとする」 – 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. 93
Publications:

  • Wonder Stories, Vol. 3, no. 9, February 1932, (Feb 1932, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing, $0.25, 96pp, large, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Paul
  • Startling Stories, Vol. 16, no. 3, January 1948, (Jan 1948, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine),  pp. 70-83. Cover: Earle Bergey
  • Every Boy’s Book of Science Fiction, (1951, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Frederick Fell, $2.75, 254pp, hc, anth)
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Apr 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, #1561, $2.98, xvii+334pp, hc, coll) Cover: Don Maitz
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Aug 1977, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-25900-9, $1.95, xviii+381pp, pb, coll) Cover: H. R. Van Dongen
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

Reviews:

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

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/StartlingStories-1948jan-00070
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OPUS#045 Reign of the Robots, The

Title: The Reign of the Robots
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“Birk sprang back with upraised bar against the Master. The blue beam flashed. It struck Birk squarely.”
“Edmond Hamilotn is the master of exciting stories that carry the reader breathlessly from the first word to the last without a stop. This story is one of those can’t-story-until-you-finish kind.
Many people believe that machines are not an unmixed blessing. Even as far back as a hundred years ago, Mrs. Shelley in her “Frankenstein” showed the machine – the creation of a human brain arising to overthrow its master. Many thoughtful people today believe that that may yet happen if we are not careful. It is a monstrous thing to picture human beings as the creatures or slaves of machines; but if machines are given intelligence and power, their domination may be limitless.
Incindentally this story has an entirely unexpected as well as surprising ending that we doubt enyone will guess beforehand. Those ironical twists at the ends of his stories are part of Mr. Hamilton’s great popularity.”
Publications:

  • Wonder Stories, Vol. 3, no. 7, December 1931, (Dec 1931, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing, $0.25, 96pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Paul
  • Strange Love Stories, (Apr 1946, ed. uncredited, publ. Utopian Publications, 1/-, 74pp, pb, anth)

Reviews:

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

ebook: http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2611

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OPUS#044 Creatures of the Comet

OPUS: #044
Title: Creatures of the Comet
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“An utterly strange and blood-curdling tale about a weird world in the heart of a comet, and fearful adventures thereon”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 18, no. 5, December 1931, (Dec 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Doolin

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v18n05_1931-12_sas

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OPUS#043 Shot from Saturn, The

OPUS: #043
Title: The Shot From Saturn
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“A tale replete with thrills and surprizes, about an attempted invasion of the earth by the planet Saturn”–TOC
“A startling weird tale about an attempted invasion of Earth by the planet Saturn.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 18, no. 3, October 1931, (Oct 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Doolin

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV18N03193110

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OPUS#042 Sargasso of Space, The

OPUS: #042
Title: The Sargasso of Space
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“Helpless, doomed into the graveyard of space floats the wrecked freighter Pallas.”
Publications:

  • Astounding Stories, Vol. 7, no. 3, September 1931, (Sep 1931, ed. Harry Bates, publ. The Clayton Magazines, Inc., $0.20, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: H. W. Wesso; illustrated by H. W. Wesso.
  • Astounding Stories: The 60th Anniversary Collection (Vol. 1 with red cover), (1990, ed. uncredited, publ. The Easton Press, (none), (none), x+397pp, hc, anth)
  • The Sargasso of Space, (May 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #28832, ebook)
  • 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)

Reviews:

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

ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltone2883228832.html
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28832
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ebook: https://scifistories.com/s/316/the-sargasso-of-space

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OPUS#040 Ten Million Years Ahead

OPUS: #040
Title: Ten Million Years Ahead
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“A startling story of what this world will be like ten million years from now, when plants rule instead of men”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 17, no. 3, April/May 1931, (Apr 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, #v17 #3, $0.25, 144pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Senf

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTales19310405ATLPM

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OPUS#039 Monsters of Mars

OPUS: #039
Title: Monsters of Mars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“Three Martian-duped Earth-man swing open the gates of space that far so long had barred the greedy border of the Red Planet.”
“The Martian gestured with a reptilian arm toward the ladder.”
Publications:

  • Astounding Stories, Vol. 6, no. 1, April 1931, (Apr 1931, ed. Harry Bates, publ. Reader’s Guild, $0.20, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: H. W. Wesso; illustrated by J. Fleming Gould.
  • Astounding Stories, April 1931, (Nov 2009, ed. Harry Bates, Project Gutenberg, publ. Project Gutenberg, #30452, ebook, anth) Cover: H. W. Wesso

Reviews:

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

ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/various3045230452-8.html
ebook: https://scifistories.com/s/274/monsters-of-mars
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30452

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OPUS#037 Horror City, The

OPUS: #037
Title: The Horror City
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1931
Type: novelette
“Two aviators are drawn by the suction of the winds into a black-domed city of horror in the heart of the Arabian desert”–TOC
“In the heart of the great Arabian desert lay a vast, black-domed city of horror unspeakable, and into this city were drawn three aviators by the tremendous suction of the winds”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 17, no. 2, February/March 1931, (Feb 1931, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. Barker Petrie, Jr.; Illust: Petrie
  • 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)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV17N0219310203

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OPUS#036 Cosmic Cloud, The [IP#7]

OPUS: #036
Title: The Cosmic Cloud
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
Series: Interstellar Patrol
Series Number: 7
“A cloud of blackness beat against the edges of our universe, threatening its crowded suns and worlds with annihilation”-TOC
“A voice whispered tensely in his ear in the tongue of the galaxy.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 16, no. 5, November 1930, (Nov 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Senf
  • Crashing Suns, (1965, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #F-319, $0.40, 192pp, pb, coll)
  • Crashing Suns, (Aug 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-1-4014-0319-5, $4.00, ebook, coll)
  • The Star-Stealers: The Complete Adventures of The Interstellar Patrol, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-33-2, $40.00, 754pp, hc, coll) Cover: Hugh Rankin

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v16n05_1930-11_sas

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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
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