Chronicles of the Star Kings
Cover illustration by Eddie Jones
Publisher: London : Arrow Books/Venture SF, 1986.4
Pagination: 297 p. ; 18 cm.
Series: Venture Science Fiction Series ; 10
Note: Paperback
ISBN: 0-09-9478609
Contents:
The Star Kings (SK#1)
Return to the Stars (SK#2)
The Star Kings
Flung across space and time by the sorcery of super-science, John Gordon exchanges bodies with a prince of the Mid-Galactic Empire two thousand centuries in the future.
Suddenly John is thrust into cosmic batile between the democratic Empire World and the tyranny of the Black Cloud regime. . . But can his twentieth-century mind cope with the technology of 200,000 years from now?
Return To The Stars
Once more John Gordon is propelled into a far-distant future — when the entire galaxy is inhabited. But the human race Is only one among thousands, and many are its sworn enemies.
So a man of the past is forced to ally himself with men of the future in a desperate struggle to save humankind from final annihilation…

The Star Kings : a Novel of the Future
Publisher: London : Museum Press, 1951.8. –
Pagination: 219 p. ; 19 cm.
Series: Science Fiction at its best
NBN: b511078
Cover:
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.
Every science-fiction fan, old and new, will acclaim The Star Kings as a classic in its field.
half page:
The Star Kings … 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.

The Star Kings
Publisher: Toronto : George I. McLeod, 1949.
Note: Published simultaneously in USA by Frederick Fell

Beyond the Moon (aka The Star Kings)
New York : New American Library, 1950.9. –
167 p. ; 18 cm. – (Signet Books ; 812)
“More astounding than the flying saucers — Amazing adventures on other worlds!” — Cover
Life- and death on other worlds
One of the most amazing adventure-stories ever written, Beyond the Moon is an action-packed account of live, war and exploration on other worlds, as experienced by a man-of-today in the future!
Young, restless, dissatisfied with his monotonous post-war insurance job, John Gordon discovered a way of traveling through time! And when he arrived in the strange world of tomorrow, Gordon found himself in the middle of a titanic interplanetary war – the one man in the universe with the key to final victory!
His adventures on other planets, his strange of love affair withe the beautiful Lianna, his single-handed battle against the invading legions of the “dark worlds” – all add up to an exciting, new kind of fiction!
Book Reviews:

• Future Science Fiction. 2(1):98. May 1958. (R. Lowndes)

The Star Kings
New York : Warner Books, 1975.9. –
190 p. ; 18 cm. – (Warner Science Fiction ; 76-942) ISBN: 0-446-76942-8
Cover: FMA
Note: ISBN: 0-446-30109-4
Book Reviews:

• Delap’s F & SF review. 7:25-26. October 1975. (F. Patten)

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?

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?

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)

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