The Star Kings (Paperback Library 1970 edition)

The Star Kings
New York : Paperback Library, 1970.11. –
190 p. ; 18 cm. – (Paperback Library ; 64-472)
“A 20th century man battles in a cosmic war 200,000 years from now! “Fantasy addicts won’t regret the price of admission.” — The New York Times — Cover
“A STIRRING NOVEL OF THE FUTURE.” — Western Morning News
Flung across space and time by the sorcery of super-science, John Gordon exchanges bodies with Zarth Arn, Prince of the Mid-Galactic Empire 2000 centuries in the future!
Suddenly John is thrust into a last-ditch battle between the democratic Empire World and the tyranny of the Black Cloud regime. Only one weapon—the terrifying Disruptor— can win the struggle for the Empire Forces. But it is so powerful that unless John uses it correctly it could destroy not only the enemy but the cosmos.
Could his 20th Century mind cope with the technology of 200,000 years from now?
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The Star Kings (Paperback Library) SK#1

The Star Kings
New York : Paperback Library, 1967.8. –
190 p. ; 18 cm. – (A Paperback Library Science Fiction Novel ; 53-538)
Cover: Gaughan
“A 20th century man battles in a cosmic war 200,000 years from now! “Fantasy addicts won’t regret the price of admission.” — The New York Times — Cover
“A STIRRING NOVEL OF THE FUTURE.” — Western Morning News
Flung across space and time by the sorcery of super-science, John Gordon exchanges bodies with Zarth Arn, Prince of the Mid-Galactic Empire 2000 centuries in the future!
Suddenly John is thrust into a last-ditch battle between the democratic Empire World and the tyranny of the Black Cloud regime. Only one weapon—the terrifying Disruptor— can win the struggle for the Empire Forces. But it is so powerful that unless John uses it correctly it could destroy not only the enemy but the cosmos.
Could his 20th Century mind cope with the technology of 200,000 years from now?
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The Star Kings (Two complete Science-Adventure Books) SK#1

The Star Kings
“He was a man of Eras, summoned through the veil of Time to save the Star-Kingdoms from the pallid-skinned Aliens. He was John Gordon, New York insurance clerk and Galactic Prince, the most dangerous man in the Universe … for locked in his mind was the secret of the Great Destroyer!”
Editor: Jerome Bixby
Cover: Allen Anderson
Publisher: Wings Publishing, 1954.4
Pagination: 148 p. ; cm.
Series: Two Complete Science-Adventure Books ; No. 2 (Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1951)
Note: $0.25
Note: Bound with: Seeker of the Sphinx (aka The Road to the Sea)
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The Star Kings (Fell) SK#1

The Star Kings
New York : F. Fell, 1949. –
262 p. ; 20 cm. – (Fell’s Science Fiction Library ; 49-11802)
Edmond Hamilton has more published science-fiction stories to his credit than any other author. The Star Kings will be hailed as his greatest work.
The Star Kings is a romance of that great age of space-travel in whose dawn we now stand. As military experimenters send rockets father up from Earth each month, and soberly plan bases on the moon and planets, the shape of a great space-traveling civilization of the future becomes more clearly defined. This story is an adventure into that future civilization – the adventure of a present-day man flung by the sorcery of science across time and space, and into a perilous whirl of intrigue and conflict between the great star-kingdoms of two thousand centuries from now.
This is escapist literature in the finest sense, the most thrilling type of delicious adventure since McCutcheon invented Graustark. Every science-fiction fan, old and new, will acclaim The Star Kings as a classic in its field.
Book Reviews:

  • Lardner, Rex, “Seven Novels of Varied Interest – Mid-Galactic: The Star Kings,” in: The New York Times Book Review, 18 Dec. 1949, p. 16.
  • Review by uncredited (1949) in The Arkham Sampler, Autumn 1949
  • Review by The Editor (1950) in Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1950
  •  Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1950) in Astounding Science Fiction, December 1950
  • Review by D. R. Smith (1950) in Science-Fantasy review, vol. 4, no.18, Spring 1950 [full text]
  • Vision of Tomorrow. 1(5):19-20. December 1950. (P. Miller)
  • Authentic Science Fiction. No.19:112. March 1952. (n.g.)
  • New Worlds Science Fiction. NO.11:95. Autumn 1951. (L.F.)
  • Thrilling Wonders Stories. 36(1):156. April 1950. (S. Merwin)
  • Super Science Stories. 6(3):98. March 1950. (F. Pohl)
  •  Review by Robert W. Lowndes (1951) in Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories, May 1951
  •  Review by Joseph H. Crawford, Jr. and James J. Donahue and Donald M. Grant (1953) in ‘333’: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel
  •  Review by Frederick Patten (1975) in Delap’s F & SF Review, October 1975

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Seyyareler Çarpışıyor (The Star Kings) SK#1

Seyyareler Çarpışıyor (The Star Kings) SK#1
Translator: A. Kahrman
Publisher: Çaglayan, 1954.11.21
Pagination: 156 p.
Series: Çaglayan Yeni Dünyalarda ; 2

Seyyareler Çarpışıyor, Edmond Hamilton’un John Gordon dizisinden “The Star Kings” adıyla 1949 yılında yayınlanan kitabıdır. Amazing Stories dergisinde yayınlanan eserin diğer adı “Beyond the Moon”dur.

Seyyareler Çarpışıyor adıyla Kasım 1954’de yayınlanan kitabın arka kapağındaki resim, “Planet Stories” dergisinin Ocak 1954 sayısında Ray Bradbury’nin “A Sound of Tunder” öyküsü için hazırlanmıştır. Bu öykü “Twilihght Zone” yani Alacakaranlık Kuşağı TV Dizisi’nde de yer almıştır.

Los Reyes de las Estrellas (The Star Kings) [Castellano]

Los Reyes de las Estrellas (The Star Kings) [Castellano]
El ámbito de esta grandiosa novela no es la Tierra, sino toda la Galaxia, y su acción no transcurre en el presente, sino… ¡dentro de dos mil siglos! Pero incluso en este marco tan gigantesco y a distancias tan inconmensurables en el tiempo, existen hombres que luchan, aman y mueren, y se halla entablada la eterna guerra entre el Bien y el Mal.
Translator: Román Goicoechea Luna
Publisher: Río Henares Producciones Graficas (Pulp Ediciones), 2004.4
Pagination: 208 p. ; 21 cm
Series: Colección Aelita ; 13
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Los Reyes de las Estrellas (The Star Kings)

Los Reyes de las Estrellas (The Star Kings)
Translator: Manuel Bosch Barret
Publisher: Edhasa, 1967
Pagination: 242 p.
Series: Seleccion de Nebula : Fantasia Científica ; 15
El ámbito de esta grandiosa novela no es la Tierra, sino toda la Galaxia, y su acción no transcurre en el presente, sino… ¡dentro de dos mil siglos! Pero incluso en este marco tan gigantesco y a distancias tan inconmensurables en el tiempo, existen hombres que luchan, aman y mueren, y se halla entablada la eterna guerra e ntre el Bien y el Mal. Con un tema tan fuera de lo común, el veterano Edmon[d] Hamilton, autor de más de 250 obras de fantasía científica, ha sabido tejer una trama insuperable, que ha convertido a LOS REYES DE LAS ESTRELLAS en su obra mejor y de mayor éxito, hasta el punto de que se considera ya como una obra clásica en el difícil género literario de la anticipacion científica.
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