The City at the World's End.The City at the World's End Edmond Hamilton Edmond Moore Hamilton (October 21, 1904 - February 1 1977) was a popular author of science fiction stories and novels throughout the mid-twentieth century.[1] Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he was raised there and in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. Renaissance E Books P.O. Box 1432, Northampton, MA 01060 www.renebooks.com ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 1588733416 $4.00 187 pages Disclosure: I have 5 novels published through Renaissance When I was a high school student, I would visit a musty eighty-year-old building four blocks off the main street of a nearby city. I would bring in a grocery bag full of books and receive a few dollars for them. I would then spend two or three hours in the crowded building. Stacks of books reached the ten foot ceilings with narrow footpaths threading a way from one room to the next. The only lighting was the occasional bare sixty watt light bulb hanging in the middle of each room. Buried two stacks in on the shelf, I found an old Ace back-to-back double novel for twenty cents. One side had 'Star Kings' by Edmond Hamilton. It was a prize that has affected my reading and writing since. 'The City at the World's End' starts with a fellow by the name of Kenniston walking down Mill Street in the Midwestern city of Middletown on a warm summer day. He sees a super-atomic bomb explode above him. He is thrown to the ground. When he gets back to his feet, he is amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. that he is still alive. The atomic bomb atomic bomb or A-bomb, weapon deriving its explosive force from the release of atomic energy through the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei (see nuclear energy). The first atomic bomb was produced at the Los Alamos, N.Mex. has blasted a hole in space and time and pushed the city of Middletown millions of years into the future. A future where the sun and the earth are dying. The science is fifty years old and the psychological aspects of the story are a little extreme but the quality of the writer comes through and you are swept into a future so far off that only imagination can get you there. The story isn't the epic tale of 'Star Kings' or the pure fun of 'A Yank Yank steamship stoker vainly tries to climb the social ladder, then fails in attempt to avenge himself on society. [Am. Drama: O’Neill The Hairy Ape in Sobel, 339] See : Failure (jargon) yank in Valhalla ' but it is the solid pulp storytelling Storytelling Aesop semi-legendary fabulist of ancient Greece. [Gk. Lit.: Harvey, 10] Münchäusen Baron traveler grossly embellishes his experiences. [Ger. Lit. typical of the Classic Age of science fiction. It is a story that should be read by any interested in the burst of writing talent that exploded into American literature American literature, literature in English produced in what is now the United States of America. Colonial Literature American writing began with the work of English adventurers and colonists in the New World chiefly for the benefit of readers in during the middle of the Twentieth Century and shaped the writing that followed. S.A. Gorden, Reviewer http://www.paulbunyan.net/users/gsirvio/content.html |
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