The Complete Hawk Carse

The complete saga of Hawk Carse as he battles the evil genius Dr. Ku Sui. Carse pits decisive action against Ku Sui’s henchmen as well as his cabinet of disembodied brains in the fight to preserve the solar system.

Hawk Carse (1931) – One of the spectacular exploits of Hawk Carse, greatest of space adventurers.
Chapter I – The Swoop of the Hawk
Chapter II – Pursuit
Chapter III – Death Rides the Star Devil
Chapter IV – The Hawk Prepares a Surprise
Chapter V – The Hawk and the Kite
Chapter VI – Back to Iapetus
Chapter VII – Jamboree
Chapter VIII – Stampede
Chapter IX – The Hawk Strikes

The Affair of the Brains (1932) – Hawk Carse himself goes to keep Judd the Kite’s rendezvous with the sinister genius Ku Sui
Chapter I – The Swoop of the Hawk
Chapter II – The Coming of Ku Sui
Chapter III – The Wave of a Handkerchief
Chapter IV – Soil
Chapter V – The Color-Storm
Chapter VI – Port o’ Porno
Chapter VII – The Coming of Leithgow
Chapter VIII – Dr. Ku Shows His Claws
Chapter IX – The Brain Speaks
Chapter X – In the Visi-Screen
Chapter XI – Trapped in the Laboratory
Chapter XII – Out Under the Dome
Chapter XIII – The Final Mystery

The Bluff of the Hawk (1932) – A trick? Carse was famed for them. A trap? But how?

The Passing of Ku Sui (1932) – A screaming streak in the night—a cloud of billowing steam—and the climax of Hawk Carse’s spectacular ‘Affair of the Brains’ is over.
Chapter I – The Plan
Chapter II – Three Figures in the Dawn
Chapter III – The Raid
Chapter IV – The Voice of the Brains
Chapter V – “My Congratulations, Captain Carse!”
Chapter VI – The Deadline
Chapter VII – To the Laboratory
Chapter VIII – White’s Brain—Yellow’s Head
Chapter IX – Four Bodies
Chapter X – The Promise Fulfilled
Chapter XI – Ordeal
Chapter XII – Flight
Chapter XIII – In Earth’s Shadow
Chapter XIV – The Hawk Strikes
Chapter XV – There Is a Meteor

The Return of Hawk Carse (1942) – Hawk Carse faced his greatest problem when he found that the sinister Ku Sui still lived; and with him seven other men who had died
Chapter I – “Diver” in the Sky
Chapter II – The Re-embodied Brains
Chapter III – The New Estapp
Chapter IV – Four More New Men
Chapter V – The Suicides
Chapter VI – The Hidden Word
Chapter VII – “Always Attack”
Chapter VIII – Swoop of the Hawk
Chapter IX – “Fun” with Esret
Chapter X – Mysterious Recordings
Chapter XI – The Secret Room
Chapter XII – The Strange Message
Chapter XIII – The Coming of Unborn Q

Harry Bates (1900-1981) was born Hiram Gilmore Bates III on October 9, 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began working for William Clayton in the 1920s as the editor of adventure pulp magazines. When Clayton proposed a period adventure magazine, Bates suggested several alternatives that he said would be easier to edit, and Astounding Science Fiction was the result.

Using the pseudonyms Anthony Gilmore and H.G. Winter, Bates and his assistant editor Desmond Winter Hall collaborated on the “Hawk Carse” series and other stories. The Return of Hawk Carse was written by Harry Bates alone.