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OPUS#193 Star of Dread, The [CF#15]

OPUS: #193
Title: The Star of Dread
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1943
Type: novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 15
“The world’s greatest space-farers battle to expose a dangerous secret menacing mankind and face desperate risks as they pursue two scheming miscreants across the void!”–TOC

Publication:

  • Captain Future [v5 #3, Summer 1943] (15¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Earle K. Bergey), pp. 13-90. Illustrated by Thomas.
  • Captain Future, Summer 1943, (Oct 2009, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Adventure House, 978-1-59798-242-9, $14.95, 128pp, tp, anth) Cover: Earle K. Bergey
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OPUS#192 Exile

OPUS: #192
Title: Exile
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1943
Type: short story
“In the depth of his mind he built a world of fear – than had to live in it!”
Publications:

  • Super Science Stories, Vol. 4, no. 4, May 1943, (May 1943, ed. Alden H. Norton, publ. Fictioneers, Inc.; Chicago, IL, $0.25, 132pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: Virgil Finlay; Illust: Morey
  • Super Science Stories (Canadian), April 1944, (Apr 1944, ed. Alden H. Norton, publ. Popular Publications, Inc.; Toronto, Canada, C$0.15, 84pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey
  • Looking Forward, (1953, ed. Milton Lesser, publ. The Beechhurst Press, $4.95, 400pp, hc, anth)
  • Looking Forward, (1955, ed. Milton Lesser, publ. Cassell & Company Ltd., 400pp, hc, anth)
  • 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
  • Space 7, (1981, ed. Richard Davis, publ. Hutchinson, 0-09-144350-4, £5.50, 160pp, hc, anth) Cover: David A. Hardy
  • The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 5, 1943, (Mar 1981, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. DAW Books, 0-87997-604-7, $2.75, 380pp, pb, anth) Cover: One Plus One Studio
  • Peter Davison’s Book of Alien Planets, (1983, ed. Peter Davison (Doctor Who), publ. Sparrow Books, 0-09-930880-0, £0.95, 96pp, pb, anth)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Third Series, (1984, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, 0-517-43522-5, 633pp, hc, anth) Cover: Romas
  • 101 Science Fiction Stories, (Jun 1986, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Jenny-Lynn Waugh, publ. Avenel Books, 0-517-60669-0, $7.98, 651pp, hc, anth)
  • 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories, (Sep 1996, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Barnes & Noble, 0-7607-0142-3, $7.98, xvi+544pp, hc, anth) Cover: Cheryl Knippenburg
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

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OPUS#191 No-Man's-Land of Time

OPUS: #191
Title: No-Man’s-Land of Time
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1943
Type: short story

“Ancient Assyrian warriors, a girl from olden Cyrene, a man from six hundred years in the future-all were here in this strange oasis in the Sahara, where Cronin and a Fighting French officer sought a dangerous enemy agent!”–TOC

Publications:

  • Science Fiction Stories, Vol. 3, no. 4, April 1943, (Apr 1943, ed. Robert W. Lowndes, publ. Columbia Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, pulp, magazine) Cover: Milton Luros; Illust: Lillis
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OPUS#190 Face of the Deep, The [CF#13]

OPUS: #190
Title: The Face of the Deep (Complete Novel)
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1943
Type: Novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 13
“Carried Far Outside the Solar System, and Wrecked on a Volcanic Planetoid in Company with s Shipload of condemned Criminals, Captain Future Faces the Supreme Test of His Courage!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 5, no. 1, Winter 1943, (Jan 1943, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), Cover: Bergey Illust: Orban

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Captain_Future_v05n01_1942_-_Better

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OPUS#189 World With a Thousand Moons, The

OPUS: #189
Title: The World with a Thousand Moons
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novelette
“There was terrible danger among the moons circling this world, but even greater menace on its surface.”-TOC
“Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasted a thousand moons”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 16, no. 12, December 1942, (Dec 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: J. Allen St. John; Illust: Ned Hadley
  • The World with a Thousand Moons, (May 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Wildside Press, 978-1-4344-0971-3, $3.99, 56pp, tp)
    The World with a Thousand Moons, (May 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #32317, ebook
  • TO THE STARS-& BEYOND, [1989] *Not Yet Published

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OPUS#188 Lost City of Burma

OPUS: #188
Title: Lost City of Burma
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“Deep inside Burma was a great secret! – and when the secret came aout it meant hell for the Japs!”–TOC
“The Japs stormed on until they faced the legendary Flame of Life, then all hell rode the Burma Road”

「ビルマのジャングル深部で、アメリカ人と日本人が、互いに競いあって”生命の炎”を捜す。日本人のほうが先に発見するのだが、彼は”炎”に捕らえられて、戻ることができなくなってしまう。」 – 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. 208
Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 4, no. 12, December 1942, (Dec 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: H. W. McCauley

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 41. “An American and a Jap seek the Flame of Life, an Asian superstition about a fire which confers immortality. The Jap wishes to use the religious force of the Flame to control the Asians, and the American is_trying to stop him. They find a lost city deep in Burma where the Jap enlists the aid of an unsettled faction in penetrating to the land of immortal serpent men who guard the Flame. The Flame is a radioactive geyser, and the Jap becomes immortal and plans to return with his forces. But the American has the last laugh! The immortal men cannot stray far from the Flame without great pain.”

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OPUS#187 Through Invisible Barriers

OPUS: #187
Title: Through Invisible Barriers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“Doctor Percival Withers, the Caspar Milquetoast of Physics, Asserts Himself with an Atomic Vengeance When Dastardly Foreign Agents Plot Death to the United Nations!”

Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 23, no. 1, October 1942, (Oct 1942, ed. Oscar J. Friend, $0.15, 132pp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey; Illust: MUR

ebook: https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV23N01194210

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OPUS#186 Planets in Peril [CF#12]

OPUS: #186
Title: Planets in Peril
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1969
Type: Novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 12

“Through and Unguessable Abyss Fraught with Peril, Curt Newton and the Futuremen Set Out to ave the Remnants of a Great Civilization from Suicide and Destruction!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 4, no.3, Fall 1942, (Oct 1942, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Rudolph Belarski; Illust: Morey
  • Planets in Peril, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2416, $0.60, 128pp, pb) Cover: Herbert J. Bruck
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OPUS#185 Daughter of Thor, The

OPUS: #185
Title: The Daughter of Thor
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“Lust for conquest flushed hot in Nazi breasts – the Norse gods confused it with the glory of combat”–TOC
“With the coming of the Nazi invaders, war came once again to the gods; who loved to fight. But how could they know which was the right side? Should they fight Nazis?”

「この作品で面白いのは、神々は最初、戦争好きなナチの側につくのだが、ナチの虐殺と欺瞞を知るにおよんで、逆の側にまわるという展開だ」 – 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. 208
Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 4, no. 8, August 1942, (Aug 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine), pp. 10-47. Cover: Robert Gibson Jones

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 207. “An American pilot who has just escaped from a Nazi prison in Norway is fighting one of his pursuers when both men are taken by Brunhild, daughter of Thor, to Valhalla. The robust gods in Valhalla are happy to hear that there is a war on and decide to help the Nazis since the American professes to be peaceloving. As they approach a battle, however, they are appalled by Nazi butchery and trickery, and decide to help the gallant Norse fighting for their homeland.”

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OPUS#184 Quest in Time, The

OPUS: #184
Title: The Quest in Time
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“She lay in the coffin as one dead; and around her moved the wraiths of dead Cortez and Monterume”–TOC
“There before Nick Clark lay the body of Kay Madison; was she dead, or had she really gone 400 years into Mexico’s past?”

Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 4, no. 6, June 1942, (Jun 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Malcolm Smith; Illust : Jay Jackson
  • Science Fantasy, Winter 1971, (1971, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.60, 132pp, digest, magazine)

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 32. “A Scientist has invented a way of separating the mind from the body and sending it back in time where it can attach itself to and dominate another body. The scientist’s associate talks the scientist into sending him back to look for Montezuma’s treasure, which they will then use for further scientific research. When he doesn’t return, the scientist’s daughter and her fiance follow him and learn that as an Inca prince he is trying to learn the secret of the treasure for his own selfish purposes.”

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