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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

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OPUS#169 Captain Future and the Seven Space Stones [CF#5]

OPUS: #169
Title: Captain Future and the Seven Space Stones
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 5
“Curt Newton, Spacefarer, and the Futuremen Take Off on the Most Thrilling Treasure – Hunt of All Time in Quest of the Solar System’s Greatest Prize!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 2, no. 2, Winter 1941, (Jan 1941, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle K. 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

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Captain_Future_V02N02_1941_Win
ebook: https://ia801608.us.archive.org/0/items/PulpMags/Captain%20Future/Captain%20Future%20V02N02%201941%20Win.pdf

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OPUS#168 Gift from the Stars

OPUS: #168
Title: Gift from the Stars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: novelette
“Human zero” Padgett never had the nerve to fight for his rights – till the mighty science of Vega showed him how to change a decimal point of a man to an important figure!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 18, no. 3, (December 1940, (Dec 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: MUR

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v18n03_1940-12/page/n89/mode/2up?view=theater

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OPUS#167 Brother to Him, A

Title: A Brother to Him
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: short story
Publication:
“Detective Tom Haney Wages Battle Against a Murdering Rat”–TOC

  • Thrilling Detective [v38 #1, December 1940] (10¢, pulp), pp. 85-89.
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OPUS#164 Triumph of Captain Future, The [CF#4]

OPUS: #164
Title: The Triumph of Captain Future
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 2009
Type: NOVEL
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 4
“Racing to the Ringed Planet in Answer to Earth’s Clarion Call, the Wizard of Science Seeks a Forbidden Elixir of Life – and Finds the City of Eternal Youth!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 2, no. 1, Fall 1940, (Oct 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, PUlp, magazine) Cover: Bergey; Illust: Wesso
  • Galaxy Mission, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2437, $0.60, 128pp, pb) Cover: Herbert J. Bruck
  • The Collected Captain Future: Wizard of Science: Volume One:, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-35-9, $40.00, xxii+723pp, hc, omni) Cover: George Rozen
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OPUS#163 Sea Born

OPUS: #163
Title: Sea Born
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
“Strange half-child of land and water”–TOC
“Beneath the sea life death and horror for human beigns – but Eric Leigh found love and a new life”

Type: novelette
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 35, no. 5, September 1940, (Sep 1940, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Ray Quigley; Illust: Bok
  • Weird Tales (UK). No. 1, February 1942

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v35n05_1940-09

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OPUS#162 Night the World Ended, The

OPUS: #162
Title: The Night the World Ended
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: short story
“Voss’ Cyclotron Can Settle Earth’s Fate – But Earth’s Doom Settles the Fate of His Cyclotron!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 17, no. 3, September 1940, (Sep 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 82-86. Cover: E. K. Bergey; Illust: Marchioni

ebook: http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1940sep-00082

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OPUS#161 Lost Treasure of Mars

OPUS: #161
Title: Lost Treasure of Mars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: short story
“Ages ago the Martians died, but an incredible guardian still protected their greatest treasure.”-TOC
“Garth Crane faced death because of one treasure cache. Was it a good idea to gamble his life on the chance of finding a greater one?”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 14, no. 8, August 1940, (Aug 1940, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 148pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 68-81, 131-132. Cover: Julian S. Krupa and Leo Morey; Illust: Julian S. Krupa
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 43, no. 4, September 1969, (Sep 1969, ed. Ted White, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 148pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 84-103. Illust: Julian S. Krupa

ebook: http://gotomars.free.fr/Lost%20Treasure%20of%20Mars.pdf
ebook: https://archive.org/details/LostTreasureOfMars
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v14n08_1940-08.Ziff-DavisCape1736

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OPUS#160 Isle of Changing Life, The

OPUS: #160
Title: The Isle of Changing Life
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: short story
“Evolution suddenly chooses a path in reverse-and man descends the ladder of civilization!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 16, no. 3, June 1940, (Jun 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: MCH