The Star Stealers — 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)