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OPUS#183 Comet Kings, The [CF#11]

OPUS: #183
Title: The Comet Kings
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1969
Type: Novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 11
“Trapped in the Depths of Halley’s Comet, the Futuremen Battle Fourth-Dimensional Monsters in a Titanic Struggle to Save the System’s Solar Energy!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 4, no. 2, Summer 1942, (Jul 1942, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), Cover: Belarski ; Illust: Wesso
  • The Comet Kings, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2407, $0.60, 127pp, pb) Cover: Herbert J. Bruck
  • Captain Future, Summer 1942, (May 2008, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Adventure House, 1-59798-174-5, $14.95, 128pp, tp, anth) Cover: Earle Bergey
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OPUS#182 Treasure on Thunder Moon

OPUS: #182
Title: Treasure on Thunder Moon
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: novella
“Thunder Moon was the Hell of the solar system, and these men had to brave it in a condemned wreck”-TOC
“It’s hell to be told 37 is too old to fly the void when you know where a great treasure lies”
「現代アメリカの作家エドモンド・ハミルトンの小説「月の宝庫」では、失業した惑星空間の住人－宇宙船の舵手とパイロットが、天王星の衛星の一つに旅行し、そこでおどろくべき物質－他のすべての物体を引っ張るかわりに、それを反ぱつする物体－を発見したことが語られている」ー『宇宙船の旅 : 空飛ぶ実験室』 / M.ワシリエフ 著[他] 共立出版, 1957, p. 26.
「現役を退いた久しい元宇宙探検家たちが、火山と溶岩の衛星、天王星のオベロンへ、太陽系稀鉱石のLeviumを探しに出かける話。活劇ではあるが、かなりしんみりした展開で、なかなか良い味だ」-岡田正也『SF雑誌99の謎』（ネオ・ベム 2014）
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 16, no. 4, April 1942, (Apr 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 276pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Robert Fuqua; Illust: Malcom Smith
  • Treasure on Thunder Moon / Trail of the Astrogar Jan 2013 ed. Edmond Hamilton, Henry Hasse Armchair Fiction (Armchair Fiction Double Novel #86) 978-1-61287-134-9, $12.95, 200 tp, anth

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v16n04_1942-04_cape1736_

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OPUS#181 Outlaws of the Moon [CF#10]

OPUS: #181
Title: Outlaws of the Moon
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1969
Type: Novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 10
“Curt Newton Leads His Valiant Band of Futuremen in the Thrilling Campaign to Preserve a Priceless Lunar Heritage!”–TOC
“Curt Newton Leads His Valiant Band of Futuremen in the Thrilling Fight to Preserve a Priceless Lunar Heritage! Follow the World’s Greatest Space-Farer, Captain Future, as He Embarks on the Most Perilous Exploits of His Career”–TOC

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 1942, (Apr 1942, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle K. Bergey; Illust: Orban.
  • Outlaws of the Moon, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2399, $0.60, 128pp, pb)

Review:

  • Vision of Tomorrow, no. 5, 1970 [Australian Sci-Fi magazine]
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OPUS#180 Wacky World

OPUS: #180
Title: Wacky World
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1942
Type: short story
“If ever there was a more cockeyed world than Mars, these two explorers didn’t wat to see it!”-TOC
“Lester and Hoskins crossed the void and landed on the bleak and forbidding surface of the plenet Mars. But they found no welcome; rather, and incredibly and nightmarish population bent only upon – revenge!”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 16, no. 3, March 1942, (Mar 1942, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.25, 244pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Robert Fuqua; Illust: Rod Ruth
  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 30, no. 4, April 1956, (Apr 1956, ed. Howard Browne, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.50, 260pp, Digest, magazine),  pp. 61-75, 83. Cover: Edward Valigursky
  • Science Fiction Adventure Classics, No. 8, Fall 1969, (1969, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 16-31. Cover: Frank R. Paul

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v16n03_1942-03_cape1736_

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OPUS#179 Quest Beyond the Stars [CF#9]

OPUS: #179
Title: Quest Beyond the Stars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1969
Type: Novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 9
“Ride With Curt Newton, the World’s Greatest Space-Farer, and the Futurmen as They Leave the Known Star Trails to Penetrate the Source of Cosmic Rays, the Very Core of the Universe!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 3, no. 3, Winter 1942, (Jan 1942, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine), Cover: Bergey; Illust: Orban
  • Quest Beyond the Stars, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2389, $0.60, 142pp, pb) Cover: Jeff Jones

Reviews:

  • Review by Ron Goulart (1969) in Venture Science Fiction Magazine, August 1969
  • Paskow, D.C., “Quest beyond the stars,” in: Luna Monthly, no. 1, June 1969, p. 31.
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OPUS#178 Dreamer's Worlds

OPUS: #178
Title: Dreamer’s Worlds
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novelette
“Swift Fantasy Novelet of a Dreamer and His Dream”
“Surely the world of Thar – its strange cities and enormous mountains, its turquoise seas, twin moons and crimson and crimson sun – is nothing but a dream? And yet…”
Publications:

  • Weird Tales, Vol. 36, no. 2, November 1941, (Nov 1941, ed. Dorothy McIlwraith, publ. Weird Tales, $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Hannes Bok; Illust: Dolgov
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)

ebook: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_36/Issue_2/Dreamer%27s_Worlds
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v36n02_1941-11

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OPUS#177 Day of the Micro-Men

OPUS: #177
Title: Day of the Micro-Men
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: short story
Publications:

  • Science Fiction, Vol. 2, no. 6, September 1941, (Sep 1941, ed. Robert W. Lowndes, publ. Columbia Publications, Inc., $0.15, 116pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Doolin or Dolgov???
  • TO THE STARS-& BEYOND!, [1989] *not yet published

“Into the world of the microscopic – thence to the very stars; that was the fate of Gurth, who would sacrifice his all for the freedom of the Micro-Men!”–TOC
“To Gurth, the freedom of his race was the aim of his life – and he faces tortures unbearable to bring the Micro-Men into their own – until he finds the very Earth shrinking beneath him!”

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OPUS#176 Lost World of Time, The [CF#8]

OPUS: #176
Title: The Lost World of Time
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: short fiction
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 8
“The Futuremen Race Into the Past to Answer a Cry for Help That Has Traveled Across a Hundred Million Years! Follow Captain Future as the Greatest Enigma of All Time Transports Him into the Forgotten Ages”–TOC
“The Futuremen Race Into the Past to Answer a Cry for Help That Has Traveled Across a Hundred Million Years!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 3, no. 2, Fall 1941, (Oct 1941, ed. Oscar J. Friend, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: George Rozen or Bergey?; Illust: Wesso
  • The Collected Captain Future Man of Tomorrow, Volume Two, (Dec 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-40-4, $40.00, xx+707pp, hc, coll) Cover: Earle K. Bergey
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OPUS#175 Son of Two Worlds

OPUS: #175
Title: Son of Two Worlds
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novella
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries
“Young Stephen Drew Crosses Space to Visit an Earth. He Has Never Seen – and Finds that His Destination Proves the Planet of the Double Cross! Follow the Adventures of as Earthman Who Views a Futuristic World of Wonder – and Longs for Another Sphere.”–TOC
“Young Stephen Drew crosses space to visit and Earth he has never seen – and finds that his destination proves the planet of the double cross!”

Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 21, no. 2, August 1941, (Aug 1941, ed. Oscar J. Friend, $0.15, 132pp, magazine) Cover: Rudolph Belarski; Illust: Finlay
  • 3 from Out There, (Mar 1959, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Crest Books / Fawcett World Library, #s282, $0.35, 192pp, pb, anth) Cover: Richard Powers
  • 3 from Out There, (1959, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Pyramid Books) ???
  • 3 from Out There, (Jun 1964, ed. Leo Margulies, publ. Panther, #1057, 3/6, 207pp, pb, anth)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV20N03194108

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OPUS#173 Star Trail to Glory [CF#6]

OPUS: #173
Title: Star Trail to Glory
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1941
Type: novel
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 6
“Follow the Curt Newton and the Futuremen Along a Multi-Million Miles of Stellar Speedway as They Streak Around the System in There Greatest Race for Justice!”–TOC
“Follow the Futuremen Along a Multi-Million Miles of Stellar Speedway as They Streak Around the System in There Greatest Race for Justice!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 2, no. 3, Spring 1941, (Apr 1941, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Bergey Illust: Wesso
  • The Collected Captain Future Man of Tomorrow, Volume Two, (Dec 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-40-4, $40.00, xx+707pp, hc, coll) Cover: Earle K. Bergey