OPUS: #034
Title: The Man Who Saw the Future
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1930
Type: short story
Variant title: The Man Who Saw Everything
“How many men have had to suffer, in the past, for their belief in things too fantastic for those not gifted with their powers of imagination, which were regards as evil and often rewarded with death! A few centries ago, far-seeing prophets like Roger Bacon dreamed of to-day’s wonders, and their predictions were condemned as supernatural visions instead of being recognised as inspired glimpses of the future. The versatile Mr. Hamilton gives us a novel little story in this vein.”

“He witnessed the wonders of a time that would not come for centuries … and such things were the Devil’s work”–TOC of Tale of Wonder
“He told of an age of a thousand marvels that had yet to be … and they burned him as a sorcerer.”–Tales of Wonder

Publications:

• Amazing Stories, Vol. 5, no. 7, October 1930, (Oct 1930, ed. T. O’Conor Sloane, publ. Experimenter Publications, Inc., $0.25, 100pp, Bedsheet, magazine) Cover: Leo Morey; Illust : Morey

• Tales of Wonder, #11, (Jul 1940, ed. Walter H. Gillings, publ. World’s Work, pulp, magazine) Cover: Turner

• Amazing Stories, February 1961, (Feb 1961, ed. Cele Goldsmith, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.35, 148pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Alex Schomburg; Illust : Morey

• Strange Signposts, (1966, ed. Roger Elwood, Sam Moskowitz, publ. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 319pp, hc, anth)

• Other Worlds, Other Times, (1969, ed. Sam Moskowitz, Roger Elwood, publ. Macfadden-Bartell, #75-238, $0.75, 192pp, pb, anth) Cover: Jack Faragasso

• Science Fiction Adventure Classics, Winter 1970, pp. 3-17. (1970, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul

• Other Worlds, Other Times, (Feb 1974, ed. Sam Moskowitz, Roger Elwood, publ. Manor Books, #95310, $0.95, 192pp, pb, anth)

• The Fantastic Pulps, (Nov 1975, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Gollancz, 0-575-02000-8, £4.50, 419pp, hc, anth)

• The Fantastic Pulps, (1976, ed. Peter Haining, publ. St. Martin’s Press, 0-312-28175-7, $10.00, 419pp, hc, anth)

• The Fantastic Pulps, (Oct 1976, ed. Peter Haining, publ. Vintage Books, 0-394-72109-8, $2.95, 418pp, pb, anth)

• Amazing Science Fiction Anthology: The Wonder Years 1926-1935, (Jan 1987, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, publ. TSR, 0-88038-439-5, $3.95, 316pp, pb, anth) Cover: Elmore

• Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 012, (Mar 2009, ed. LibriVox, publ. LibriVox, audio (MP3), anth)

• 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

• Short Science Fiction Collection 19, (Jun 2009, ed. LibriVox, publ. LibriVox, audio (MP3), anth)

• The Man Who Saw the Future, (Dec 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Project Gutenberg, #28062, ebook)

• The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three, (Aug 2010, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 978-1-893887-41-1, $40.00, 670pp, hc, coll)

Reviews:

• Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

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