|
NEXT
RELEASE
Gateway
to Paradise,
The Collected
Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Six
|
FOR
CHARITY
In Memory of
Wonder's Child
Edited by
Stephen Haffner
|
|
Home | Books
|The Metal Giants and Others
|
The Metal Giants and
Others,
The Collected Edmond Hamilton,
Volume One
Edmond
Hamilton
Introduction by
Robert Weinberg
Illustrated
by Joseph Doolin, Hugh Rankin, Frank R. Paul, and C.C. Senf,
ISBN-10
1893887316
ISBN-13 9781893887312
$40.00
720 pp. Hardcover
Description
The Metal Giants and Others launches in style the multi-volume program
to collect all the prose work of a neglected, but fondly remembered
master, Edmond Hamilton.
Culled from the highly collectible (and highly priced!) early issues of
pulp magazines such as Weird Tales,
Amazing Stories, and Science
Wonder Quarterly, these tales seethe and foam with the vigor of
unrestrained imagination. Hamilton had yet to earn his (sometimes
undeserved) reputation as "World Wrecker" or "World Saver" when these
stories were published, but as these tales show -- he was well on his
way. In this volume, the Earth is threatened countless times, but one
lone hero (usually a genius-scientist) stands between triumph or total
annihilation. The influence of A. Merritt and M.P. Shiel is felt in
several tales of lost, exotic lands, and Hamilton himself begins to
exert his own small influence on the genre with several stories of
temporal dislocation and cosmic menace.
Author, editor, bookdealer, art collector (and co-owner of Weird Tales,
Ltd.) Robert Weinberg delivers an introduction with details on the
history of early American science fiction, the context of these stories
in relation to their contemporaries, and his own personal memories of
knowing -- and publishing -- Edmond Hamilton.
|
|
Table of Contents
Introduction by
Robert Weinberg
"The Monster-God of
Mamurth" (Weird Tales, Aug ’26)
"Across Space" (Weird Tales, Sep, Oct, Nov ’26)
"The Metal
Giants" (Weird Tales, Dec ’26)
"The Atomic
Conquerors" (Weird Tales, Feb ’27)
"Evolution
Island" (Weird Tales, Mar ’27)
"The Moon
Menace" (Weird Tales, Sep ’27)
"The Time-Raider" (Weird Tales, Oct, Nov, Dec ’27,
Jan ’28)
"The Comet
Doom" (Amazing
Stories, Jan
’28)
"The Dimension
Terror" (Weird Tales, Jun ’28)
"The Polar
Doom" (Weird
Tales, Nov
’28)
"The Sea
Horror" (Weird Tales, Mar ’29)
"Locked Worlds"
(Amazing
Stories Quarterly Spr ’29)
"The Abysmal
Invaders" (Weird Tales, Jun ’29)
Reviews
TBA
Excerpts
TBA
|
|
HAFFNER PRESS
5005 Crooks Road • Suite 35
Royal Oak, MI 48073-1239
ph: 248-288-4765
info@haffnerpress.com
Copyright © 2008 Haffner Press. All Rights Reserved.
|
FEATURED ITEMS
Stark and the
Star Kings
by
Edmond Hamilton
&
Leigh Brackett
Seventy-Five: The Diamond Anniversary of a
Science FIction Pioneer--Jack Williamson
Edited by
Stephen Haffner
&
Richard A. Hauptmann
|
|
