City at World’s End
New York : F. Fell, 1951. –
239 p. ; 20 cm. – (Fell’s Science Fiction Library ; 51-10074)
This is the story of a present-day town and its people – a small Midwestern city whose fifty thousand inhabitants are suddenly flung into an unprecedented and terrifying situation.
When a strange scientific cataclysm strikes, Middletown and all its people find themselves hurled out of their own time into the far future of Earth – an Earth grown old and alien and dying, an Earth long ago abandoned by man. Here is the story of pompous Mayor Garris, and of Johnson, the scared electrician; of Hubble, the scientist, and of Mrs. Adams, who worried about her roses; of lovely Carol Lane and of John Kenniston, who felt a fatal guilt; or all the bankers, bakers, millhands, housewives, old folk and children, who find themselves and their town forever marooned at the end of the world.
And when, at last, these people of the present meet the folk of the far future, the folk whose civilization stretches across the worlds of a thousand stars – then the present and the future clash in dramatic conflict on the dying, forgotten Earth.
Book reviews:
- Fantasy Advertiser, June 1951, p. 9-10
