OPUS#228 City at World’s End, The

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OPUS: #228
Title: The City at World’s End (Complete Novel)
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1950
Variant Title of: City at World’s End (by Edmond Hamilton)
Type: novella
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries
“At first the people of Middletown thought that the superbomb was only a dud but actually it hurled all their town forward a million years!”
「超原子爆弾の爆発によって、アメリカの小さな町が数百万年後の未来にふきとばされ、住民たちはその時代の地球に人間が住んでいないことを知る。ここで描かれているのは、窮地におちいった人間たちの行動と、彼らが発見する星間文明である。この文明を築いたのは、はるか以前に地球に飛び出した人類で、支配圏を拡大しつづけているうちに、自分たちが地球で生まれた種族であるという意識を完全に失ってしまっている。この地球人類は、発展段階の劣る人間型の種族とコンタクトして、その種族を文明化して銀河連邦の一員にくわえようとしていたのである。」-『ＳＦ百科図鑑』
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 21, no. 3, July 1950, (Jul 1950, ed. Sam Merwin, Jr., publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.25, 164pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Earle Bergey
  • City at World’s End, (Feb 1951, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Frederick Fell, $2.75, 239pp, hc)
  • City at World’s End, (1952, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Museum Press (Science Fiction Club), 9/6, 192pp, hc)
  • City at World’s End, (1954, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Corgi, #T58, 2/-, 221pp, pb) Cover: John Richards
  •  City at World’s End, (Sep 1957, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Fawcett Crest, #s184, $0.35, 160pp, pb) Cover: Richard Powers
  • City at World’s End, (Dec 1961, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Crest Books / Fawcett Publications, #s494, $0.35, 160pp, pb) Cover: Richard Powers
  • City at World’s End, (1964, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Crest Books / Fawcett World Library, #L758, $0.45, 160pp, pb) Cover: Richard Powers
  • City at World’s End, (Jan 1974, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Fawcett Crest, #M2026, $0.95, 160pp, pb) Cover: Paul Lehr
  • City at World’s End, (Jul 1983, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-30987-1, C$3.50, 201pp, pb) Cover: Rick Sternbach
  • City at World’s End, (Jul 1983, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-30987-1, $2.75, 201pp, pb) Cover: Rick Sternbach
  • City at World’s End, (Sep 2007, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Brownstone Books, 1-4344-8567-6, $24.95, 160pp, hc)
  • City at World’s End, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, 978-0-345-30987-7, $4.00, ebook) Cover: Doug Chaffee
  • King of Stars, (Sep 2008, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Baen, $20.00, ebook, omni) Cover: Doug Chaffee
  • City at World’s End, (date unknown, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Crest Giant, #s184, $0.50, 160pp, pb) Cover: Richard Powers

Reviews:

  • Review by Jack Kelsey (1951) in Fantasy Advertiser, Volume 5, No. 2,  June 1951
  • Review by The Editors (1951) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1951
  • Review by L. Sprague de Camp (1951) in Astounding Science Fiction, August 1951
  • Review by Groff Conklin (1952) in Galaxy Science Fiction, March 1952
  • Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1965) in Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, June 1965
  • Review by Dick and Nicki Lynch, Chat : newszine of the Chattanooga Science Fiction Association, v1, no. 10, July, 1977
  • Review by Baird Searles (1984) in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, January 1984
  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 28. “”A much more literate and adult novel than the old World Wrecker’s earlier, cosmos -encompassing efforts, detailing the somewhat startling adventures experienced by a small townful of twentieth century inhabitants suddenly catapulted unexpectedly by the detonation of the ultimate weapon into an incredibly remote future wherein old Sol is a a virtually lifeless cinder and earth is a deserted and well- nigh forgotten world. This is a very well written and interesting novel indeed, though perhaps the sentimental aspects of it were a little overdone for my admittedly somewhat Philistine tastes, with many fascinating alien characters from the far-flung Galactic Confederation of allied worlds that now dominate the universe who come in reply to the stranded Earth-people’s desperate distress call, particularly Gorr Holl, the man-bear mechanic from Capella. He’s a corker. Reprinted in 1951 by Frederick Fell in hardcover, and then in paperback first in 1953 by Galaxy Science Fiction Novels, and then in 1954 by Corgi (England), and again in 1956 by Crest. “
  • Analog. 47(6):142-143. August 1951. (L. de Camp)
  • Galaxy. 3(6):83. March 1952. (G. Conklin)
  • New Worlds Science Fiction. No.18:96. November 1952. (L. Flood)
  • Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. 2(4):83-84. August 1951.(Boucher & McComas)

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