Fugitive of the Stars by Edmond Hamilton

"In the Federation, human and non-human have managed to work together pretty well. The day may come when your world will want to join them."Someplace in the Middle West, I forgot to record where, I recently bought a copy of the 1965 Ace Double of Edmond Hamilton's Fugitive of the Stars and Ken Bulmer's Land Beyond the Map, a two dollar souvenir of my visit to one of many antique malls. We here at MPorcius Fiction Log are big fans of child prodigy, Superman and Batman script writer, and Weird Tales alum Hamilton, who at one point was Isaac Asimov's favorite writer,* so let's read Fugitive of the Stars today. (If you can't find a two dollar copy yourself, maybe try the scan at the internet archive here, or spend like eleven smackers shopping unlocal at ebay.)*See page 16 of the hardcover edition of Asimov's Before the Golden Age.It doesn't actually mention this in my 1965 Ace Double, but Fugitive of the Stars began life in 1957 as a novella in Imagination. The cover illustration of that…