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OPUS#035 Mind-Master, The

OPUS: #035
Title: The Mind-Master
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: short story
“A powerful weird-scientific story about a scientist who sought to enslave the world to his ambitious schemes”-TOC
“He staggered with it like an automaton toward the thirteenth cabinet.”

Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 16, no. 4, October 1930, (Oct 1930, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: P.E.H.
  • 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_v16n04_1930-10_sas

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OPUS#034 Man Who Saw the Future, The

OPUS: #034
Title: The Man Who Saw the Future
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: short story
Variant title: The Man Who Saw Everything
“How many men have had to suffer, in the past, for their belief in things too fantastic for those not gifted with their powers of imagination, which were regards as evil and often rewarded with death! A few centries ago, far-seeing prophets like Roger Bacon dreamed of to-day’s wonders, and their predictions were condemned as supernatural visions instead of being recognised as inspired glimpses of the future. The versatile Mr. Hamilton gives us a novel little story in this vein.”

“He witnessed the wonders of a time that would not come for centuries … and such things were the Devil’s work”–TOC of Tale of Wonder
“He told of an age of a thousand marvels that had yet to be … and they burned him as a sorcerer.”–Tales of Wonder

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 5, no. 7, October 1930, (Oct 1930, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Experimenter Publications, Inc., $0.25, 100pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey; Illust : Morey
  • Tales of Wonder, #11, (Jul 1940, ed. Walter H. Gillings, publ. World’s Work, pulp, magazine) Cover: Turner
  • Amazing Stories, February 1961, (Feb 1961, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 148pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Alex Schomburg; Illust : Morey
  • Strange Signposts, (1966, ed. Roger Elwood, Sam Moskowitz, publ. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 319pp, hc, anth)
  • Other Worlds, Other Times, (1969, ed. Sam Moskowitz, Roger Elwood, publ. Macfadden-Bartell, #75-238, $0.75, 192pp, pb, anth) Cover: Jack Faragasso
  • Science Fiction Adventure Classics, Winter 1970, pp. 3-17. (1970, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul
  • Other Worlds, Other Times, (Feb 1974, ed. Sam Moskowitz, Roger Elwood, publ. Manor Books, #95310, $0.95, 192pp, pb, anth)
  • The Fantastic Pulps, (Nov 1975, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Gollancz, 0-575-02000-8, £4.50, 419pp, hc, anth)
  • The Fantastic Pulps, (1976, ed. Peter Haining, publ. St. Martin’s Press, 0-312-28175-7, $10.00, 419pp, hc, anth)
  • The Fantastic Pulps, (Oct 1976, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Vintage Books, 0-394-72109-8, $2.95, 418pp, pb, anth)
  • Amazing Science Fiction Anthology: The Wonder Years 1926-1935, (Jan 1987, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, publ. TSR, 0-88038-439-5, $3.95, 316pp, pb, anth) Cover: Elmore
  • Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 012, (Mar 2009, ed. LibriVox, publ. LibriVox, audio (MP3), anth)
  • 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)
  • The Man Who Saw the Future, (Dec 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #28062, ebook)
  • 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

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OPUS#001 Monster-God of Mamurth, The

Title: The Monster-God of Mamurth
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1926
Type: short story
Note: first submitted as “Beyond the Unseen Wall”. then “The Desert God”
“Creeping horror, weird thrills, uncanny shivers, are in this eery tale of the Desert of Igidi”–TOC
“I had not killed the thing, but had chained it down by the block that held it prisoner.”
「目に見えないサハラの秘密都市を透明蜘蛛が守っている」 – 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. 159
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol.8, no. 2, August 1926, (Aug 1926, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, magazine) Cover: C. Barker Petrie, Jr.; Illust: Olnick
  • Beware After Dark!: The Worlds Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror, (Aug 1929, ed. T. Everett Harré, publ. The Macaulay Company, $2.50, 461pp, hc, anth)
  • Beware After Dark!: The Worlds Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror, (1931, 2nd ed. T. Everett Harré, publ. Gold Label, 461pp, anth)
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 26, no. 3, September 1935, (Sep 1935, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 128pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Margaret Brundage
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • Beware After Dark!: The Worlds Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror, (1942 or 1945, 3rd ed. T. Everett Harré, publ. Emerson, 461pp, anth)
  • Magazine of Horror, Vol. 3, no. 2=No. 14, Winter 1966/67, (1966, ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes, publ. Health Knowledge, Inc., magazine) Cover: Hubert Carter
  • The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (Jun 1975, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Gregg Press, 0-8398-2304-5, $12.50, ix+256pp, hc, coll)
  • 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
  • Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2001, (2001, ed. John O’Neill, publ. New Epoch Press, $8.00, 240pp, tp, magazine) Cover: Hung Ving Mac
  • Jim Baen’s Universe, October 2007, (Oct 2007, ed. Mike Resnick, Eric Flint, publ. Baen Books, #1932093023, $6.00, ebook, magazine)
  • The Metal Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-31-6, $40.00, xx+693pp, hc, coll) Cover: Joseph Doolin
  • 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 (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years

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ebook: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N02192608