This story is justly famous as an example of the sheer scope possible in science fiction within even a short story in science fiction.  Here, faced with the death of the Sun, the humanity of a future Solar System comes up with a grand solution to the problem of interstellar migration -- and faces perils on an equally-grand scale.  This tale was one ( Read more... )

"The World With a Thousand Moons"
© 1942
by
Edmond Hamilton
Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasted a thousand moons

CHAPTER 1

Thrill Cruise

Lance Kenniston felt the cold realization of failure as he came out of the building into the sharp chill of the Martian night. He stood for a moment, his lean, drawn face haggard in ( Read more... )

Synopsis:  This is the tale of Allan Mann (serial number 2473R6), a young man who is a bit too passionate to fell well into the rigidly-Technocratic society of the early 4th Millennium A.D.  When he refuses to let the atomic-motor project he's been working on for the past two years be simply turned over to another engineer, he is arrested for a " ( Read more... )

An updated version of my 2007 review of Edmond Hamilton's epic A Conquest of Two Worlds (1932), including a chronology and copious notes, is up on Fantastic Worlds here.  I invite commentary.

 Conquest of Two Worlds
(c) 1932
by Edmond Hamilton
Chapter 1:  Drake's Expedition
Jimmy Crane, Mart Halkett and Hall Bumham were students together in a New York technical school in the spring when Gillen's flight changed the world. Crane, Halkett and Bumham had been an inseparable trio since boyhood. They had fought youthful foes together, had ( Read more... )

IntroductionEven the best writer strikes out occasionally, especially when he's hastily hack-writing to fit a market. Reading this story was painful, because I know from experience that Edmond Hamilton was capable of so much better -- he'd achieved far better before, and would go on to achieve far better in his later work. I got the impression ( Read more... )

This is my third review of an Edmond Hamilton short story. It was also one of my biggest surprises, because while I had read it before, I was amazed that the story hadn't previously made a deeper impression on me. Since it is one of Hamilton's darker stories, this may be because I had previously rejected it for emotional reasons ( Read more... )

My second review of an Edmond Hamilton short story

( Spoilers for The Man Who Evolved )

This is one of a series of reviews I'm going to do of the short stories featured in The Best of Edmond Hamilton (1977), edited by his wife, Leigh Brackett. I've already done an Edmond Hamilton review not from that book.

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( Spoilers for The Monster-God of Mamurth )

( Read My Review! )