OPUS#063 Man with X-Ray Eyes, The

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Title: The Man with X-Ray Eyes
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1933
Variant Title of: The Man Who Saw Everything (by Edmond Hamilton )
Type: short story
“Endowed with super-vision, reporter David Winn learns the awesome and terrifying secret of seeing too much!”–Startling
Perhaps the facts propounded in the present story are all too true … we know that some of them are. Perhaps it is well that the truth about many matters is kept from the public mind …. while the knowledge of others would definitely aid civilization.
If someone offered you the power of seeing everything – through walls – would you accept? We’ll wager you would. And David Winn accepted. He wanted to see all there was to see. He wanted the world revealed to his eyes. No real harm can come from merely using the sense of sight, you say. But read the story and you may change your opinion.
Publications:

  • Wonder Stories, Vol. 5, no. 4, November 1933, (Nov 1933, ed. Hugo Gernsback, publ. Stellar Publishing, $0.25, 128pp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul
  • “Man Who Saw Everything, The”, The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, (1936, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Philip Allan, 2/6, 256pp, hc, coll)
  • THE SEX SERUM, Dickinson, Utopian (UK), 1945hamilton-anthology1
  • Startling Stories, Summer 1946, (Jul 1946, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey
  • “Man Who Saw Everything, The”, 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)

Reviews:

  • Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
  • Wonder Stories. Vol. 5, no, 4 (11-33) Illust: Winter
  • Startling Stories. Vol. 14, no. 1 (Summer-46), pp. 62-69. illust: Marchioni
  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 56. “One of the old master’s excellent psychological studies, about what it would be like for an ordinary man to become suddenly possessed of an extraordinary power. First appeared in Wonder Stories, November, 1933.”

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