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) -nearly 100 additional pages of interior pulp illustrations, readers' letters, and letters from Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright to Edmond Hamilton.

Nearly a century before the racks of mass-market books were flooded with media tie-ins for franchises such as Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. (and ten years before E.E. "Doc" Smith created the Lensmen), Edmond Hamilton pioneered and popularized the concept of a galactic peacekeeping force. Hamilton's first crack at the concept in "Crashing Suns" has his band of heroes confined to the solar system as the "Interplanetary Patrol" With "The Star Stealers," Hamilton takes his notion of a stellar police force to the distant cosmic shores as the "Interstellar Patrol." Many of these stories were reprinted in the 1960s from Ace Books as two beautiful paperbacks: Crashing Suns and Outside the Universe. This volume collects ALL of the stories of the Patrol . . . plus continues the program to collect all the prose work of Edmond Hamilton with two additional novels, "The Other Side of the Moon" and "The Hidden World." The American master of modern Space Opera, Walter Jon Williams (author of Implied Spaces, and the three volume saga, Dread Empire's Fall) provides the introduction. Table of Contents Introduction by Walter Jon Williams "Crashing Suns" (Weird Tales, Aug, Sep 28) "The Star-Stealers" (Weird Tales, Feb 29) "Within the Nebula" (Weird Tales, May 29) "Outside the Universe" (Weird Tales, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct 29) "The Comet-Drivers" (Weird Tales, Feb 30) "The Sun People" (Weird Tales. May 30) "The Cosmic Cloud" (Weird Tales, Nov 30) "Corsairs of the Cosmos" (Weird Tales, Apr 34) "The Hidden World" (Science Wonder Quarterly, Fll 29) "The Other Side of the Moon" (Amazing Stories Quarterly, Fll 29)