OPUS#007 Time-Raider, The

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OPUS: #007
Title: The Time-Raider
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1927
Type: novel
Magazine Appearances:
The Time-Raider (Part 1 of 4) (1927) – Edmond Hamilton
The Time-Raider (Part 2 of 4) (1927) – Edmond Hamilton
The Time-Raider (Part 3 of 4) (1927) – Edmond Hamilton
The Time-Raider (Part 4 of 4) (1928) – Edmond Hamilton

“A four-part serial story about an entity from far in the future, that sweeps back through time for its victims”–TOC of part1
“He dangled helplessly in the thing’s embrace.”–part 1
“A four-part serial story about an entity that sweeps back through time to seize its victims”–TOC of part 2
“Held in its shapeless form were men, who hung helpless in its grasp.”–part 2
“A four-part serial story about an entity that sweeps back through time to seize its victims”–TOC of part 3
“While exploring the ruins of Angkor, Professor Cannell is captured by the Time-Raider, a creature from fifteen thousand years in the future, which sweeps back through time for its victims to build up an army of warriors with which the Kanlars can overwhelm the parent city of Kom. Cannell’s friends, Wheeler and Lantin, build a time-car and pursue the Raider into the future, but are captured by the Kanlars and held prisoner with the teeming hordes of warriors in the City of the Pit. The two friends, with Denham (an English soldier of the time of George III), D’Alord (a French musketeer), Fabrius (a Roman legionary) and Ixtil (an Aztec cacique), plan to escape up the spiral stairway and flee to the city of Kom in Lantin’s time-car, which is hidden near the city of the Kanlars.”–part 3
“Help in its shapeless form were men, who hung helpless in its grasp.” – part 4
“A four-part serial about an entity that sweeps back through time to seize its victims.” – TOC of part 4

「一万五千年後の世界から訪れた者に友人をさらわれたため、若い科学者ふたりが数週間で時間移動機をつくりあげ、友人の救出にむかうという本篇は、筋立てにこそ新味はないが、邪悪な未来人が数において優勢な敵をほろばすため、過去から勇者を狩り集めて軍隊を組織するというアイデアは秀抜である。未来社会の科学力の描写等にも見るべきものがある。この時期におけるハミルトンの到達点といってさしつかえない」 — 大瀧啓裕編　『ウィアード』　3　（青心社, 1990） p. 327
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 10, no. 4, October 1927, (Oct 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 10, no. 5, November 1927, (Nov 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; Illust: Rankin
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 10, no. 6, December 1927, (Dec 1927, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hugh Rankin; Illust: none
  • Weird Tales, Vol. 11, no. 1, January 1928, (Jan 1928, ed. Farnsworth Wright, publ. Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, $0.25, 144pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: C. C. Senf; illust: none
  • 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

Reviews:

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

part 1: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV10N04192710
part 2: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v10n05_1927-11_AT-sas
part 3: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV10N06192712
part 4: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV11N01192801sasIfcIbc