OPUS: #033
Title: World Atavism
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: novelette
Note: Amazing Stories, August 1930, illustrated by Frank R. Paul.
“The Sun’s rays have been credited with many beneficial powers. It is a universally conceded fact that the sun is necessary to good health; not only because of its warmth-giving rays, but also because of some other element, directly a health-giving factor, which has since been more or less successfully duplicated in the laboratory – in the form of Alpine lamps and what not. It is also said, however, that there are certain properties in the rays of the sun which might be used as life^giving rays. As far as we know, nothing definite has been established on this score yet. Who knows what other helpful possibilities are hidden in the various ether vibrations produced by the sun? Edmond Hamilton has a brand new idea, which he elaborates and weaves into a fascinating story of scientific fiction Certainly it seems to us to be of absorbing interest.”
Publications:

• Amazing Stories, Vol. 5, no.5, August 1930, (Aug 1930, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Experimenter Publications, Inc., $0.25, 96pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: H. W. Wesso; Illust: Paul

• Science Fiction Classics, No. 3, Winter 1967, (1967, ed. Ralph Adris, publ. Magazine Productions, $0.50, 130pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey

• 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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