Edmond Hamilton: "The Metal Giants," "The Atomic Conquerors," and "Evolution Island"

I hope you didn't get your fill of MPorcius fave Edmond Hamilton last time when we read his 1929 epic of a genocidal trip to the Earth's hollow center, "The Hidden World," because today we have three stories from Weird Tales by the Ohio-born child prodigy and husband of Leigh Brackett, a man smart enough to graduate high school at 14 and drop out of college at 17--dummies like me wait until their twenties and grad school to escape the receiving end of academia.I'm reading all these stories in scans of Weird Tales you can find at the following links: "The Metal Giants" "The Atomic Conquerors" "Evolution Island""The Metal Giants" (1926)Here we have a Weird Tales cover story that went on to be the title story for the first volume of Haffner Press' The Collected Edmond Hamilton. In 1932 a small press issued "The Metal Giants" as a sort of pamphlet and in 1982 Forrest J. Ackermann included "The Metal Giants" in his anthology The Gernsback Awards.Professor Detmold is an embarrassment to the…