Anthologies usually have a design behind them. I’m still trying to discern the VanderMeers’s methodology for the stories they collect in The Big Book of Science Fiction. “Doc” Smith’s Skylark and Lensman series vastly overshadowed Hamilton’s space operas. Edmond Hamilton is most famous for his Captain Future series, but even those fan favorite stories from the 1940s weren’t reprinted as books until 1969, and then as cheap Ace paperbacks. Most of Hamilton’s early magazine work wasn’t published in book form until the late 1960s or 1970s. However, because it took decades for these stories to be reprinted suggests they weren’t fan favorites. All of them were republished in 2009 as The Star-Stealers: The Complete Adventures of The Interstellar Patrol, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two, a collector’s edition from Haffner Press that’s now out of print and costs hundreds of dollars used, if you can find a copy. Five of the Interstellar Patrol stories were first published in book form in 1965 as Crashing Suns, the year before Star Trek premiered.
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