Organleggers, The (#37)


DateSettingTypePublishedI.U.C.
1969-01Known Space: Gil Hamilton Short StoryGalaxy, January 1969
K.S. 10 (2123)


ReprintsCharactersNotes
& World's Best Science Fiction 1970, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr;
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction # 3: Supermen, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Signet 1984;
Supernatural Sleuths, ed. Charles G. Waugh Martin H. Greenberg, Penguin/Roc 1996;
Israeli edition, along with The Patchwork Girl, data in Hebrew;
Graphic version, as “A.R.M. A Tale of Known Space" adapted by Bill Spangler, Adventure Comics: Malibu Graphics Inc. September, October, November 1990.;
Shape of Space, The
Inconstant Moon
Long Arm of Gil Hamilton, The
Flatlander
Gil Hamilton;
Luke Garner;
Jackson Bera;
Owen Jennison;
Julio Ordaz;
Kenneth Graham;
Taffy Grimes;
Loren
First Gil Hamilton story, featuring Luke Garner as Gil's boss. A.k.a. "Death By Ecstasy"


Summary
First published in Galaxy, January 1969. This story introduces Gil "The Arm" Hamilton, a member of the U.N. police force. When a wirehead's corpse turns out to be an old friend of Gil's, he refuses to accept that it was a suicide. The clues lead Gil to an elusive organlegging gang and a terrifying showdown with a criminal mastermind....