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The Best of Edmond Hamilton

by Edmond Hamilton

Here is a collection of some of the finest short fiction penned by one of  "fathers" of modern science fiction. *** These stories were selected (and edited) by his wife Leigh Brackett, an author and a screenwriter. Her screen-writing credits include works on such films as The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, The Long Goodbye and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. I*** This collection spans nearly half a century of Edmond Hamilton's work and was selected from a repository of hundreds of stories that he had written over that period. Contents: The Monster-God of Mamurth (1926) The Man Who Evolved (1931) A Conquest of Two Worlds (1932) The Island of Unreason (1933) Thundering Worlds (1934) The Man Who Returned (1934) The Accursed Galaxy (1935) In the World's Dusk (1936) Child of the Winds (1936) The Seeds from Outside (1937) Fessenden's Worlds (1937) Easy Money (1938) He That Hath Wings (1938) Exile (1943) Day of Judgment (1946) Alien Earth (1949) What's It Like Out There? (1952) Requiem (1962) After a Judgement Day (1963) The Pro (1964) Castaway (1969)

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?