Title: The Island of Unreason
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Storylen: short story
“Reprinted from Wonder Stories, May, 1933, this very readable story tells of the island where misfits and incorrigibles are isolated from civilization in the future” – Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 54
Reason, we hope, is being made more and more the guide for our actions. What must this tendency ultimately lead to? Will emotion be stamped out of our lives entirely, and the race become merely adding machines? Mr. Hamilton carries us into the future to visualize an intermediate era, when emotion is despised but not yet stamped out. His story of that time is not only amusing and interesting, but instructive of the changes that the race must pass through to escape from our emotion-ridden ancestors to a new day when we shall be all intellectual giants.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2 First struggles
Chapter 3 A World of Turmoil
Publications:
- Wonder Stories, Vol. 4, no. 12, May 1933, (May 1933, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing, $0.25, 96pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Paul
- Startling Stories, Vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 1945, (Apr 1945, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: WIN???
- Murder in the Clinic, (1946, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Utopian Publications, #7, 1/-, 36pp, ph, coll)
- The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 1 1926-1935, (1974, ed. Michael Ashley, publ. NEL, 0-450-02182-3, £2.95, 239pp, hc, anth)
- The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 1 1926-1935, (1976, ed. Michael Ashley, publ. Henry Regnery, 0-8092-8001-9, $4.95, 239pp, tp, anth)
- The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 1 1926-1935, (1976, ed. Michael Ashley, publ. Henry Regnery, 0-8092-8003-5, $9.95, 239pp, hc, anth)
- The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 1. 1926-1935, (Mar 1977, ed. Michael Ashley, publ. NEL, 0-450-02484-9, £1.50, 239pp, pb, anth) Cover: Terry Griffiths
- 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
- 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 (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years