Captain Future 5: Die sieben Weltraumsteine

Captain Future #5

by Edmond Hamilton

Ein grausiger Mord bringt Captain Future auf die Spur eines finsteren Der brillante, aber skrupellose Wissenschaftler Ul Quorn macht Jagd auf die geheimnisvollen Raumjuwelen − mächtige Artefakte der uralten untergegangenen Marsdynastie! Wird es Captain Future gelingen zu verhindern, dass Quorn mit ihrer Hilfe uneingeschränkte Macht über das System erlangt und die neun Welten grausam unterjocht?Der Roman Captain Future and the Seven Space Stones ist im Winter 1941 in dem Pulpmagazin Captain Future − Wizard of Science erschienen. Er wird hier, erstmals auf Deutsch, mit sämtlichen Illustrationen und allen zur Serie gehörigen Materialien der Originalausgabe vorgelegt.Die vorliegende Neuausgabe hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, Edmond Hamilton als Klassiker der Science Fiction ernst zu nehmen. Alle Texte werden vollständig und mit größtmöglicher Werktreue ins Deutsche übertragen.

Genres: Science Fiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1941

About the author

Edmond Moore Hamilton was a popular author of science fiction stories and novels throughout the mid-twentieth century. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he was raised there and in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. Something of a child prodigy, he graduated high school and started college (Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania) at the age of 14--but washed out at 17. He was the Golden Age writer who worked on Batman, the Legion of Super-Heroes, and many sci-fi books.

Reviews

[Craig]

In this adventure, Curt and his crew are first introduced to the evil Ul Quorn, the Magician of Mars, and his vicious partner, N'Rala. Hamilton was a master of fast-paced space opera adventure, and this one is no exception. Though they're more fantasy than scientific, his aliens are always interesting, and the backgrounds of the settings are thoroughly rich with detail. There was one point in the plot that gave me pause, when Curt devises a method of cheating at a gangster's crooked roulette game (Kimball Kinnison would have never done such a thing!), but I suppose it's forgivable since the future of the solar system was at stake. Captain Future was the premiere pulp science fiction hero.

[Tony Williams]

In the spirit of radio/movie serial icons like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, Captain Future and the Seven Space Stones is pure, unabashed sci-fi pulp. The title character may not be the most charismatic hero to grace the genre, but his square-jawed do-goodery will be a nice diversion for fans of the genre. For the rest of you, your mileage will vary.

[Candyce Sweet]

It started off Thanos and ended up Antman. Utterly brilliant and fun.

[Charles]

What brought a smile to my face? That here we see an early appearance of a pet that Hamilton will re-use almost a quarter century later in the pages of Adventure Comics, only then he will be Proty, the pet of Chameleon Boy, instead of Oog, Otho's pet. Those early adventures of the Legion of Super Heroes were one of the comics highlights of my misspent childhood.
Also, if you look at the cover and squint just a little you might see the outline of an Infinity Gauntlet. One of the many questions I'd ask Jim Starlin if I was ever fortunate enough to have a beer with the man is if how many Lensman and Captain Future books he read in his youth.

[Rubén Lorenzo]

Le estoy cogiendo cariño a estas novelas de Space Opera clásica. No es que sean una maravilla ni en la forma ni en el fondo, pero son coloristas, simpáticas y mantienen el ritmo y el suspense hasta el final. Quizá esta última es la más previsible en algunos aspectos, pero también muy imaginativa.

Tanto el Capitán Futuro como sus compañeros son arquetípicos, pero me hacen esbozar una sonrisa. El estilo es sencillo y directo, sin grandes descripciones ni ambientación, solo acción a raudales.

En cuanto a los complementos, hay un relato de Fredric Brown que ya había leído y que es, cómo no, de calidad; y otro de un autor que desconozco, menos ingenioso pero también solvente a la hora de entretener. Además, en la sección de correo (sacada del original, que esto es un fascímil), hay una carta que pone la seria a parir. Curioso, cuanto menos.

En resumen, he pasado de dudar si completar la serie a esperar con ganas el próximo número. LA recomiendo.

[Joaquin del Villar]

Esta entrega del Capitán Futuro me ha resultado bastante mas interesante que las anteriores, sobre todo por los villanos, por un lado la sexy marciana N'rala, quizás demasiado impulsiva y el cerebral e ambivalente Ul Quorn, mestizo de Marte y de la Tierra. Aparte de ello la novela gana porque los "hombres del Espacio" tienen mayor protagonismo, especialmente Grag y Otho, con algunos hilarantes momentos. La historia complementaria "La tumba de la Achilles"por encima de la media de estos relatos "teloneros".

[Little Timmy]

The pulp era SiFi hero, Captain Future is a more scientific version of Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon. He and his band of Futuremen are special criminal investigators for the Earth government and are similar to Doc Savage and his band of helpers. Great reads, recommended