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
