Tetragravitron: Captain Spycer #1

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A writer, I thought, ought to have some coherent framework on which to hang his tales of future events—then they would be apt to be more logical in each story. Please understand I make no claim to be a prophet.

Nobody can really write the history of the future until it happens. But this is my own particular guess as to the way it may happen. It covers only the main tides of future history, the greater crises and changes. There is plenty of room In it for an unlimited number of new stories, I believe. It even encompassed the Captain Future stories, knitting all his work into a disparate whole.

Various portions of this future were published in letters-to-the-editor and story-behind-the-story columns, as well as in footnotes to some novels. Until that time, however, we'll have to be content to let Author Hamilton disburse the doings of the worlds centuries hence in piece-meal form, in his various fictional offerings, and in this department. For Edmond Hamilton, as we have noted on a previous occasion, is the future's Number I historian. And whenever he wants a plot for a story he merely thumbs through his fifty cubic feet of reference notes, finds a likely subject, and taps out a corking yarn.

It Is my "History of the Solar system," a nonfiction work to which I have been slowly adding for some time.

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I began it as a simple chronology. I've tried to stick to this framework in my stories since then. Now and then one of my older stories, written before I started adhering to the History, bobs up in a magazine. It may be interesting to give an idea of the scheme -of my History, by quoting here the titles of the first few sections of it. This was, of course, an era of rapidly expanding Earth Influence. But, whenever I have had a little spare time I have added to this mass of material, sometimes drawing maps of the swamps and lands of Venus, or the mountain ranges of Uranus, sometimes writing a detailed little account of some event that particularly interested me.

In fact, though I started the History simply for convenience, I soon found it a fascinating thing to work on. Hamilton ended the outline he provided Thrilling Wonder Stories here. But this only encompassed the early years of the settling of the solar system. We will feature an expanded version of this history that Hamilton wrote later, detailing the remaining years of the two thousand centuries his history of the future encompassed in a forthcoming blog.

Heinlien , Thrilling Wonder Stories. In this short piece from a longer phone interview, Stu Byrne describes an encounter with Richard S. Shaver and the infamous Dero, Max, in mids Chicago. Byrne also recounts two meetings with Ray Palmer, who first published the Mystery in Amazing Stories, that seem to offer substantiation for his claims. You can hear it by playing the lower audio player on the right hand side of this blog page.

Shaver , Shaver Mystery. This was not the pure pipe dream it seemed, as Burroughs had written his last Mars, Venus and Pellucidar novels for Amazing Stories when Palmer was its editor-in-chief. If Burroughs had written for him, why would the estate turn him down? He flung down the gauntlet with the November issue, which featured a cover by long-time Burroughs' illustrator, the immortal J.

John, and the headline: Inside was a ten page, closely reasoned and highly emotionally charged, article of that title, which was nothing less than a clarion call to fandom to back his crusade. This is what Palmer wrote: Here is an article which represents a challenge to all those millions in whose mind Tarzan. I knew John Carter personally. I met him much later than Tarzan, for I grew up with Tarzan. There never was any question in my youthful mind that Tarzan was real. Had anyone asked me, I could have answered triumphantly with his real name, Lord Greystoke, of England, and none could have swayed me from the conclusiveness of this proof!

Today I might feel a bit sheepish about it, but the knowledge that I was not alone comforts me, nay, makes me proud. For here is vindication. Here is proof of the real talent of the greatest of all writers, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Along with hundreds of thousands of others. George Washington may have been a myth, but Tarzan really lived! Yes, I met John Carter. Not only did I meet him, but I planned with him his next adventures! Yes, I treasure those last days. I was editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures then, and as editor, I persuaded Edgar Rice Burroughs to write these new novels for me, novels that never have been written otherwise.

I, personally, wanted to read more of those magnificent novels! It was the most selfish action in the world, in one respect, and as it turned out, the most generous — for millions the world over enjoyed wit me these new adventures of those characters who can never die. The thought of that pleases me more than any memory of my past activities. To link my name with that of John Carter, in actuality! To be responsible for some of his adventures! What greater ambition can a boy have!

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What more tremendous attainment! I handle the book as tenderly as though it were the most priceless of rare editions. It is his masterpiece. It is within its pages that Mars becomes more real to me than my own planet! This book, and The Moon Maid, I consider the epitome of story-telling, true literature, examples of the writing art which can stand the assault of time, and which stand as targets for every writer who has his soul in his writing, and who desires to attain perfection.

How many times have I re-read them both? You would smile and say: Oft in the night, I walk through the Valley Dor, musing upon the heroic deeds that once transpired here. Again, in my mid, I see Tars Tarkas, the giant Thark, as he battles beside John Carter, against the great white apes while the death call of the Holy Therns rings out from the high cliffs all about.

And sometimes, after I drop off to sleep, my subconscious mind devises new fantasies so engrossing that awaking enrages me. Today I am still hungry for more John Carter. In my mind they stand beside the memory pictures of other living people, as equal as flesh and bold — and they will be ever so.

It is not enough to say Tarzan can never die! That is small solace for the fact that his is a. For Tarzan is not dead! Nor are hundreds of questions we can ask that remain unanswered. Is she never to attain any true happiness? Is that incredibly lovely woman doomed forever to remain among the troglodytes of Opar, with no prospect for a mate save a beastly half-human? You could, in ten minutes, phrase five hundred such questions.

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What about the ninth Barsoomian Ray; or the tenth? What about Kar Komak, that one lonely Phantom Bowman who became flesh? What about the religion of Mars, now left without one? Will the Holy Therns one day try to restore the ancient religion of Issus?

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The Great White Apes; what about them? Several times we saw them trying to become men — and almost succeeding. Will they ever succeed, and what will happen if they do? For years these questions have plagued me. The realization that they could never be answered caused an actual sense of sorrow, of loss.


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Sometimes I half-hoped when I saw a new Tarzan movie announced — and returned from it so sadly disillusioned that I swore never to go to another. No one, it seemed, could take up where the great Edgar Rice Burroughs left off. John Coleman Burroughs, his son, tried it. Many times I visited with J. John, the famous illustrator of the Tarzan and Mars. How could it be Heaven otherwise! And on this last mournful note we sink back, reach for our tattered copy of The Gods of Mars, and retrace our steps into the past, for that is all we have left. And like introverts, we retreat into ourselves, and look out upon a world that has taken so much anticipating from us with a snarl of futility.

Tarzan can never die, but he might just as well!

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T'would save the poignant pangs of longing that assail us always. And yet, the other day it happened. I could hardly believe my eyes, but when I realized what I had in my hands, I questioned not, or hesitated, but plunged into what has since become the prime adventure of my reading life — for what my eyes beheld, in words, was a familiar character, La of Opar, for whom the High Priest, patient no longer, had come to make her his mate. At last her most feared hour was upon her — and in her heart she knew she would not live the night through, for rather than mate with this horribly stunted, hairy beast, she would die at her own hand.

One hundred thousand words later I was in ecstasy, the happiest man alive — for all my questions had been answered, and I knew at last what had happened to Kar Komak, who was the true Issues, and how Mars got back its ancient religion! No longer was The Gods of Mars the best of the Burroughs books — here at last was a better! Here at last was the supreme novel, the book for which all the others were only preparation, only plot-shadows casting before them the portent of the giant to come!

Here was the book that welded the whole series into one complete, magnificent plot, cohesive in every unit, from the Apeman himself to Jason Gridley. And on the heels of this came the most unkind barb of all — for to read this great novel is forbidden! No man may read it. It cannot be published, for to do so is plagiarism.

And this is one plagiarism that nobody could get away with. Legal action would be swift and relentless. Is there no way! And the answer was as cold as ice: Crayne writes"funny stuff" says Nebula and Hugo winner Larry Niven. And just as incredible. This romp through science fiction's more tropical tropes is witty, suspenseful, and laugh-aloud funny. Overview Music Video Charts. Opening the iTunes Store. If iTunes doesn't open, click the iTunes application icon in your Dock or on your Windows desktop. If Apple Books doesn't open, click the Books app in your Dock.

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