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OPUS#264 Babylon in the Sky

OPUS: #264
Title: Babylon in the Sky
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1963
Type: short story
“The monstrous cities orbiting overhead mocked the earthbound humans. Hobie wanted to reach out there and pull one down and smash it.”

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 37, no. 6, March 1963, (Mar 1963, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 6-21.  Cover: Lloyd Birmingham; illustrated by Birmingham
  • Great Science Fiction, No. 8, Fall 1967, (1967, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Leo Summers

ebook: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n5dQZQgbQg17S5NQnK5JysIHgbarJgvA

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OPUS#263 Sunfire!

OPUS: #263
Title: Sunfire!
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1962
Type: short story
“He was a walking in the pine grove, with the resinous smell of the trees in his mostrils. Once he had met a smell vaguely like it, far away from Earth. Forget about that, a voice said in his mind, but he would never forget.”
“Hamilton had a resurgence in the magazine with a handful of superb tales, including ‘Sunfire!’ (Amazing, September 1962), about sentient energy life on Mercury.” – Ashley, Mike, Transformations : the story of the science-fiction magazines from 1950 to 1970, Liverpool University Press, 2005, p. 227.
「水星に棲む有知覚のエネルギー生命を扱った」 – マイク・アシュリー著 ; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史：黄金期そして革命』（東京創元社, 2015）p. 288.

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 36, no. 9, September 1962, (Sep 1962, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 6-20.  Cover: Lloyd Birmingham; Illust : Finlay
  • The Best of Amazing, (1967, ed. Joseph Ross, publ. Doubleday, hc, anth)
  • The Best of Amazing, (1968, ed. Joseph Ross, publ. Robert Hale, 0-7091-0461-8, 224pp, hc, anth)
  • The Best of Amazing, (1969, ed. Joseph Ross, publ. Belmont, #B75-1017, $0.75, 192pp, pb, anth)
  • Thrilling Science Fiction, February 1973, (Feb 1973, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.60, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Ron Walotsky
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Amazing Stories, August 1979, (Aug 1979, ed. Omar Gohagen, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., #ISSN: 0164-7687, $1.50, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Elinor Mavor
  • Science Fiction Gems, Volume Six, (2013, comp. Gregory Luce, publ. Armchair Fiction & Music, #AF-G11)

ebook: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nu9U0q2MY1nUK4TzVBBG1g2nlRB-dayn

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OPUS#262 Stars, My Brothers, The

OPUS: #262
Title: The Stars, My Brothers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1962
Type: novelette
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries : Era of Interstellar Exploration 2300-2621
“He was afraid – not of the present or the future, but of the past. He was afraid of the thing tagged Reed Kieran, that stiff blind voiceless thing wheeling its slow orbit around the Moon, companion to dead worlds and silent space.”
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 36, no. 5, May 1962, (May 1962, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 148pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 6-43. Cover: George Schelling; Illust : Finlay
  • Alien Worlds, (Sep 1964, ed. Roger Elwood, publ. Paperback Library, #52-320, $0.50, 176pp, pb, anth)
  • The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, No. 8, Spring 1968, (1968, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine)  Illust : Finlay
  • Alien Worlds, (Apr 1968, ed. Roger Elwood, publ. Paperback Library, #610-53667-060, $0.60, 176pp, pb, anth)
  • What’s It Like Out There? and Other Stories, (1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Ace, #88065, $0.95, 320pp, pb, coll)
  • Amazing Stories: Vision of Other Worlds, (1986, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, publ. TSR, 0-88038-302-X, $7.95, 253pp, pb, anth)
  • The Stars, My Brothers, (Mar 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #24870, ebook)
  • The Stars, My Brothers, (Apr 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. LibriVox, audio (MP3))
  • The Sargasso of Space and Two Others / The Copper-Clad World, (Jun 2009, Edmond Hamilton, Harl Vincent, publ. Wildside Press (Wildside Double #1), 978-1-4344-0506-7, $14.95, 86+80pp, dos, omni) Cover: Byron Moore , Catmando
  • The Stars, My Brothers, (May 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Wildside Press, 978-1-4344-0970-6, $2.99, 50pp, tp)

ebook: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamiltone2487024870.html
ebook: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24870

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OPUS#261 Requiem

OPUS: #261
Title: Requiem
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1962
Type: short story

“All during its lifetime Earth had been deluged … overwhelmed … submerged in and endless torrent of words. Was even its death to be striped of dignity by the cackling of the mass media?”

Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 36, no. 4, April 1962, (Apr 1962, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 148pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 28-45. Cover: Lloyd Birmingham; Illust : Summers
  • Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction, No. 7 (1965, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. World Publishing Co., $6.00, 518pp, hc, anth)   Illust : Summers
  • The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, No. 7, Winter 1967, (1967, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine)
  • The Vortex Blasters and Other Stories, (1968, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Macfadden-Bartell, #60-325, $0.60, 144pp, pb, anth) *derivative anthology
  • The Learning Maze and Other Science Fiction, (1974, ed. Roger Elwood, publ. Julian Messner, 0-671-32661-9, $6.95, 191pp, hc, anth)
  • Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction, (1974, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Hyperion Press, 0-88355-126-8, 518pp, hc, anth)
  • Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction, (1974, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Hyperion Press, 0-88355-155-1, $4.95, 518pp, 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
  • Catastrophes!, (Jul 1981, ed. Charles G. Waugh, Martin Harry Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, publ. Fawcett Crest, 0-449-24425-3, $2.50, 413pp, pb, anth) Cover: John Berkey
  • Amazing Stories: 60 Years of the Best Science Fiction, (Jul 1985, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. TSR, 0-88038-216-3, $7.95, 255pp, tp, anth)
  • The Best of Edmond Hamilton, (Nov 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Phoenix Pick, 978-1-60450-489-7, $14.99, 348pp, tp, coll)

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Requiem_35

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OPUS#260 Haunted Stars, The

OPUS: #260
Title: The Haunted Stars
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1960
Type: NOVEL
Publications:

  • The Haunted Stars, (Mar 1960, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, Mead/Torquil / SFBC, $1.20, 192pp, hc)
  • The Haunted Stars, (Mar 1960, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, Mead/Torquil, $2.95, 192pp, hc)
  • The Haunted Stars, (Mar 1960, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Dodd, C$3.50, 192pp, hc)
  • in: Tyrone Daily Herald, May-August, 1961 [info]
  • in:Reading Eagle (Sunday Eagle : Book of the Week), Aug. 20-Oct. 22, 1961,  [ebook]
  • in: Brooklyn Daily, []-[], 1961.
  • in: The Daily Courier, []-[], 1961.
  • The Haunted Stars, (Feb 1962, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Pyramid Books, #F-698, $0.40, 159pp, pb) Cover: V. Kandinsky
  • The Haunted Stars, (1965, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Herbert Jenkins, 12/6, 174pp, hc) Cover: Brian Lewis
  • The Haunted Stars, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-1-5150-0698-5, $4.00, ebook) Cover: V. Kandinsky
  • King of Stars, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni) Cover: Doug Chaffee

Reviews:

  • Review by S. E. Cotts (1960) in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, July 1960
  • Review by uncredited (1960) in New Frontiers, vol. 1, no. 3, August 1960, p. 45-46.
  • Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1960) in Analog Science Fact -> Fiction, November 1960
  • Review by Floyd C. Gale (1963) in Galaxy Magazine, April 1963
  • Review by Donald Malcolm (1965) in Vector 33
  • Amazing. 34(7):137. July 1960. (S. Cotts)
  • Analog. 66(3):167-168. November 1960. (P. Miller)
  • Books & Bookmen. 10:31. Sept., 1965.
  • Galaxy. 21(4):156-157. April 1963. (F. Gale)
  • Punch. 248:5. Apr. 7. 1965.
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OPUS#259 Godmen, The

OPUS: #259
Title: The Godmen
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1958
Type: novella
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries : Era of Interstellar Exploration 2300-2621
“Interplanetary science fiction novel”–TOC
“Legends whispered across the galaxy of a race which traveled the eternal cosmos without ships – or any mortal form. Was it legend? Or -”

Publications:

  • Space Travel, Vol. 5, no. 6, November 1958, (Nov 1958, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Paul E. Wenzel; Illust : D. Bruce Berry

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Space_Travel_Volume_5_Number_6_

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OPUS#258 Star Hunter, The

OPUS: #258
Title: The Star Hunter
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1958
Type: novella
Note: The Last of The Star Kings
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries
“Interplanetary science fiction novel”–TOC
“Certain death faced Mason if he ventured into the untracked Outer Marches of the galaxy; yet if he didn’t go the galaxy itself would die!”

Publications:

  • Space Travel, Vol. 5, no. 5, September 1958, (Sep 1958, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Paul E. Wenzel
  • The Star Hunter & The Alien, (Jan 2012, ed. Edmond Hamilton, Raymond F. Jones, publ. Armchair Fiction (Armchair Fiction Double Novel #45), 978-1-61287-067-0, $12.95, 216pp, tp, anth)

ebook: http://bookre.org/reader?file=1204514&pg=1
ebook: https://archive.org/details/Space_Travel_v05n05_1958-09_cape1736

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OPUS#257 Planet of Exile

OPUS: #257
Title: Planet of Exile
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1958
Type: novella
“Interplanetary science fiction novel”
“What had become of the Earth Farrow had known? Gone were the proud cities and teeming millions. He found only desolation – and fear!”
Publications:

  • Space Travel, Vol. 5, no. 4, July 1958, (Jul 1958, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Malcolm Smith; Illust : D. Bruce Berry

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Space_Travel_v05n04_1958-07

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OPUS#256 Dark Backward, The

OPUS: #256
Title: The Dark Backward
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1958
Type: short story
“In winter, on an island off the New England coast, you get used to wind-lashed surf, to hardship and struggle, to the cold, lonely life. Maybe you get so used to it that you don’t want to hear when the bright future calls …”
「未来人が過去への移住を計画する捻りの利いた作品だ」- マイク・アシュリー著 ; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史：黄金期そして革命』（東京創元社, 2015）p. 174.
Publications:

  • Venture Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 2, no. 3, May 1958, (May 1958, ed. Robert P. Mills, publ. Mercury Press, Inc., $0.35, 132pp, Digest, magazine)  Cover: M. S. Dollens; Ill : Giunta & Schoenherr
  • Venture Science Fiction [UK], February 1965, (Feb 1965, ed. Ronald R. Wickers, publ. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd, 3/-, 116pp, Digest, magazine)

ebook: http://magicmonkeyboy.blogspot.jp/2012/03/dark-backward-by-edmond-hamilton.html

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OPUS#255 Corridor of the Suns

OPUS: #255
Title: Corridor of the Suns
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1958
Type: novella
variant title: Corridors of the Stars
“was it man’s destiny to bridge the awesome depths between the galaxies? Evers was hunted as a criminal for daring to dream he could find a -.” ill. D. Bruce Berry pp. 6-59
“Evers had found a way to bridge the galactic depths – and for this he must die!”
Publications:

  • Imagination, Vol. 9, no. 2, April 1958, (Apr 1958, ed. William L. Hamling, publ. Greenleaf Publishing Company, $0.35, 132pp, digest, magazine), pp. 6-59. Cover: Malcolm Smith