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OPUS#026 Plant Revolt, The

OPUS: #026
Title: The Plant Revolt
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
“The street was full from end to end with hundreds of slow-crawling plant masses.”
“On a mountain-top was created a horror that set the plant kingdom in wild revolt against man and animals”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 15, no. 4, April 1930, (Apr 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: Rankin
  • The Earth in Peril / Who Speaks of Conquest?, (1957, Lan Wright, Donald A. Wollheim, publ. Ace (Ace Double #D-205), #D-205, $0.35, 158+160pp, pb, omni) Cover: Ed Emshwiller , Stanley Metzoff
  • 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 (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV15N04193004jvhSas

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OPUS#023 Space Visitors, The

NOTE: #023
Title: The Space Visitors
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: short story
Variant titles: The Space Beings
“The colossal scoop had descended lightning-like out of the skies at dusk, and with incredible swiftness had cut a vast lane of destruction through the city. It glittered strangely as though composed of an unknown metal.”
“The colossal scoop had cut a vast lane of destruction through the city”–Startling Stories, v2, n2

Publications:

  • Air Wonder Stories, Vol. 1, no. 9, March 1930, (Mar 1930, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing Corporation, $0.25, 100pp, large pulp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Frank R. Paul
  • as “The Space Beings,” Tales of Wonder, #5, (1938, ed. Walter H. Gillings, publ. World’s Work, 1/-, 128pp, magazine) Cover: W. J. Roberts; illustrated by Frank R. Paul
  • Startling Stories, Vol. 2, no. 2, September 1939, (Sep 1939, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Alex Schomburg
  • 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
  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 45, “A real gem of a classic by the old master about space fishermen who come trawling their nets for humanity, reprinted from Air Wonder Stories, March, 1930”

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OPUS#024 Evans of the Earth-Guard

OPUS: #024
Title: Evans of the Earth-Guard
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: short story
“The grim black rocket, whirling and dipping with an astounding swiftness, was endeavoring to bring the twisting little craft into the lines of its guns.”
“Evans of the Earth Guard,” by Edmond Hamilton, is a story in which we learn some of the problems that man will face if communication is ever established with the moon, and commerce with lunar cities is ever started. He shows how, in the future, we will have to have an “earth guard” to protect commerce and transportation between the earth and its satellites. — Popular Mechanics Magazine, vol. 53 no. 4, April 1930, p. 168.

Publications:

  • Air Wonder Stories, Vol. 1, no. 10, April 1930, (Apr 1930, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publications, $0.25, 96pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; illustrated by Lumen Winter.

Reviews:

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

ebook:

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OPUS#022 Comet-Drivers, The [IP#5]

OPUS: #022
Title: The Comet-Drivers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
Series: Interstellar Patrol
Series Number: 5
“The combat that following was the most horrible I had ever engaged in.”
“From the valid of space it came, a cosmic vampire looting the lives of universes – a weird-scientific novelette”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 15, no.2, February 1930, (Feb 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: Rankin
  • 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_v15n02_1930-02_sas

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OPUS#021 Life-Masters, The

OPUS: #021
Title: The Life-Masters
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
“A great wave of living protoplasm swept through the streets, licking them clean of life.”
” Great masses of protoplasm formed in the seas and advanced upon the land in a wave of destruction and death.”–TOC

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 15, no. 1, January 1930, (Jan 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • 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 (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v15n01_1930-01_-ibc_LPM-URF-AT-SAS

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OPUS#165 Murder Asteroid

OPUS: #165
Title: Murder Asteroid
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: vignette
“You Can Break All Laws Except Scientific Ones!”
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 18, no. 1, October 1940, (Oct 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 80-81.  Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust : Paul
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OPUS#119 Lake of Life, The

OPUS: #119
Title: The Lake of Life
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1978
Type: novella
“A weird-scientific thrill-tale of adventure, mystery and romance – of the waters of immortality, the strange Red and Black cities, and the dread Guardians that watched eternally over that terribly glowing lake”
Magazine Appearances:
The Lake of Life (Part 1 of 3) (1937) – Edmond Hamilton
“A weird-scientific story replete with thrills, adventure, mystery and romance”
The Lake of Life (Part 2 of 3) (1937) – Edmond Hamilton
The Lake of Life (Part 3 of 3) (1937) – Edmond Hamilton
“A weird-scientific story replete with thrills, adventure, mystery and romance.”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 30, No. 3, September 1937, (Sep 1937, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 30, No. 4, October 1937, (Oct 1937, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay
  •  Weird Tales, Vol. 30, No. 5, November 1937, (Nov 1937, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Finlay
  • The Lake of Life, (1978, ed. Robert Weinberg, publ. Robert Weinberg (Lost Fantasies #8), $5.50, 80pp, tp, anth) Cover: Marcus Boas

ebook: http://www.pulpmags.org/PDFs/WT_1937_10/index.html
ebook: http://www.pulpmags.org/weird_tales_page.html
ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_30/Issue_4/The_Lake_of_Life
ebook: https://archive.org/details/wt_1937_10

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OPUS#122 Child of Atlantis

OPUS: #122
Title: Child of Atlantis
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1937
Type: novelette
“What brooding shape of horror dwels (sic) in the black castle that topped the sinister island?”
“What brooding shape of horror dwelt in the black castle that topped the sinister island on which a young American and his wife were shipwrecked on their honeymoon?”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 30, no. 6, December 1937, (Dec 1937, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 708-725. Cover: Virgil Finlay

ebooks: http://www.pulpmags.org/PDFs/WT_1937_12/index.html
ebooks: https://archive.org/details/wt_1937_12

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OPUS#097 Door into Infinity, The

OPUS: #097
Title: The Door into Infinity
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1936
Type: novelette
“An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events.”
“An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events” — TOC
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 28, no. 2, August/September 1936, (Sep 1936, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 130-153. Cover: Margaret Brundage; Illust: Napoli
  • The Second Leonaur Book of Supernatural Detectives, (2015, publ. Leonaur)

ebook: http://www.pulpmags.org/weird_tales_page.html
ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltone3284732847-8.html
ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_28/Issue_2/The_Door_into_Infinity
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32847
ebook: https://archive.org/details/weird_tales_august-september_1936
ebook: https://scifistories.com/s/405/the-door-into-infinity

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OPUS#048 Three from the Tomb, The

OPUS: #048
Title: The Three From the Tomb
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1932
Type: novelette

“A dramatic thrill-tale about three millionaires, dead and buried for month, who reappeared among the living”–TOC
“A thrill-tale of surgery – three millionaires, dead and buried who reappear in the world of the living”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 19, no. 2, February 1932, (Feb 1932, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Doolin
  • Startling Mystery Stories, Vol. 2, no. 2=No. 8, Spring 1968, (1968, ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes, publ. Health Knowledge, Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Virgil Finlay

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v19n02_1932-02_sas