Category Archives: novella (51-100 pages)

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OPUS#249 Cosmic Destroyer, The

OPUS: #249
Title: The Cosmic Destroyer
Author: Alexander Blade (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1957
Type:  novella
“”Barron had two choices: he could leave the Pleiades peacefully, or stay to hunt a girl who – if he found her – would destroy the entire galaxy!”

Publications:

  • Imaginative Tales [v4 #5, September 1957] (35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Lloyd Rognan), pp. 6-59.

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OPUS#248 World of Never-Men

OPUS: #248
Title: World of Never-Men
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1957
Type: novella
“Barker set out on a trail of vengeance that would lead him to retribution–or death. It would also, inevitably, bind him to Mars’ dark secret…”

Publications:

  • Imaginative Tales, Vol. 4, no. 4, July 1957, (Jul 1957, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Malcolm Smith

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OPUS#247 Sinister Invasion, The

OPUS: #247
Title: The Sinister Invasion
Author: Alexander Blade (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1957
Type: novella
“Birrell rebelled at the idea of becoming a cosmic counter-spy. But he was the one Earthman whom a quick of nature had fitted for the job …”
Publication:

  • Imagination [v8 # 3, No.55, June 1957] (35¢, 132pp, digest, cover by Lloyd N. Rognan), pp. 6-60.   illustrated by LNR.
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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.

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OPUS#245 Starcombers, The

OPUS: #245
Title: The Starcombers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1956
Type: novella
“Greedy scavengers of the universe, they sold the dead dreams of ancient races for junk – until a battle for life taught them what dreams are worth!”

Publications:

  • Science Fiction Adventures, Vol. 1, no. 6, December 1956, (Dec 1956, ed. Larry T. Shaw, publ. Royal Publications, Inc., $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Ed Emsh
  • Science Fiction Adventures, No. 5, (Nov 1958, ed. Larry T. Shaw, John Carnell, publ. Nova Publications Ltd., 2/-, 118pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Emsh. *cut slightly
  • Great Science Fiction Adventures, (1963, ed. Larry T. Shaw, publ. Lancer, #72-697, $0.50, 174pp, pb, anth) Cover: Emsh
  • Great Science Fiction Adventures, (1968, ed. Larry T. Shaw, publ. Lancer, #74-944, $0.75, 285pp, pb, anth)
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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#242 Citadel of the Star Lords

OPUS: #242
Title: Citadel of the Star Lords
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1956
Type: novella
“Out of the dark vastness of the void came a conquering horde, incredible and invincible, with Earth’s only weapon – a man from the past!”
Publications:

  • Imagination, Vol. 7, no. 5, October 1956, (Oct 1956, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 8-65. Cover: Lloyd N. Rognan
  • Citadel of the Star Lords / Voyage to Eternity, (Dec 2010, ed. Milton Lesser, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Armchair Fiction (Armchair Fiction Double Novel #4), 978-1-61287-003-8, $12.95, 216pp, tp, anth)
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OPUS#241 Thunder World

OPUS: #241
Title: Thunder World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1956
Type: novella
“Farrel knew his father had made a great scientific discovery – and been killed for it; but revenge would lead him to the perils of – ”

Publications:

  • Imaginative Tales, Vol. 3, no. 4, July 1956, (Jul 1956, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Lloyd Rognan
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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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