City at World’s End
Publisher: London : Museum Press, 1952.9
Pagination: 192 p. ; 19 cm
Series: Science Fiction at its best
Note: Science Fiction Club
NBN: b5212209
This is the story of a present-day town and its people—a small city in the Middle West whose fifty thousand inhabitants are suddenly projected into an unprecedented and terrifying situation.
As the result of a weird scientific cataclysm, Middletown and all its people find themselves hurled out of their own time into the far future of the Earth—an Earth grown old and alien and dying, an Earth long since 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; of all the other members of this community 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 people of the far future, people whose civilization stretches across the worlds of a thousand stars—then the present and the future clash in dramatic conflict, to produce one of the most startling and absorbing tales of Science Fiction yet to have appeared.
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City at World's End (Canadian edition)
City at World's End (Del Rey)
City at World’s End
New York : Ballantine, 1983.7. –
201 p. ; cm. – (A Del Rey Book ; 30987) ISBN: 0-686-45242-9
Cover: Rick Sternbach; ISBN: 0-345-30987-1
“Half a million copies in print of this astounding and prophetic bestseller …” — Cover
Then the Sky Split Open
One moment Kenniston was strolling down the quiet street, lost in pleasant reverie. The next moment the sky split open!
It split wide open, and above them was a bum and a blaze of light—so swift, so violent, that the air itself seemed to have burst into flame.
Then there was silence—awful, suffocating silence.
Kenniston felt the chill of premonition—a shapeless terror that grew into a thing too evil to be borne alone.
THIS NOVEL DESCRIBES THE SHOCKING EXPERIENCE OF A GROUP OF ORDINARY PEOPLE, CATAPULTED BY A MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION INTO THE TERRIFYINGLY STRANGE WORLD OF A MILLION YEARS HENCE. IT IS NOT A PROPHECY-BUT A WARNING!
City at World's End (Crest 1974)
City at World’s End
Greenwich : Fawcett, 1974.1. –
160 p. ; 18 cm. – (A Fawcett Crest Book ; M-2026)
In one split second they were hurled across time into a world a million miles away – Cover
One moment Kenniston was strolling down the quiet street, lost in pleasant reverie. The next moment the sky split open!
It split open, and above him was a burn and a blaze of light—so swift, so violent, that the air itself seemed to burst into flame.
Then there was silence—awful, suffocating silence.
Kenniston felt the chill of premonition—a shapeless terror that grew into a thing too evil to be borne alone.
This novel describes the shocking experience of a group of ordinary people, catapulted by a mysterious explosion into the terrifyingly strange world of a million years hence. It is not a prophecy—but a warning. – Back cover
City at World's End (Crest 1964)
City at World’s End
Greenwich : Fawcett, 1964. –
160 p. ; 18 cm. – (Crest Book ; L-758)(Fawcett World Library)
Cover: Powers
In one split second they were hurled across time into a world a million miles away – Cover
One moment Kenniston was strolling down the quiet street, lost in pleasant reverie. The next moment the sky split open!
It split open, and above him was a burn and a blaze of light—so swift, so violent, that the air itself seemed to burst into flame.
Then there was silence—awful, suffocating silence.
Kenniston felt the chill of premonition—a shapeless terror that grew into a thing too evil to be borne alone.
This novel describes the shocking experience of a group of ordinary people, catapulted by a mysterious explosion into the terrifyingly strange world of a million years hence. It is not a prophecy—but a warning. – Back cover
City at World's End (Crest 1961)
City at World’s End
Greenwich : Fawcett, 1961. –
160 p. ; 18 cm. – (Crest ; S-494)
Cover: Powers
In one split second they were hurled across time into a world a million miles away – Cover
One moment Kenniston was strolling down the quiet street, lost in pleasant reverie. The next moment the sky split open!
It split open, and above him was a burn and a blaze of light—so swift, so violent, that the air itself seemed to burst into flame.
Then there was silence—awful, suffocating silence.
Kenniston felt the chill of premonition—a shapeless terror that grew into a thing too evil to be borne alone.
This novel describes the shocking experience of a group of ordinary people, catapulted by a mysterious explosion into the terrifyingly strange world of a million years hence. It is not a prophecy—but a warning. – Back cover
City at World's End (Crest Giant)
City at World's End (Fell)
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.
City at World's End (Galaxy)
City at World’s End
New York : Galaxy (Pub. by Guinn), 1953. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Galaxy Science Fiction Novel ; no. 18)
NBN: b5411207 Cover: Emsh NUC: 74-30949
ebook: https://archive.org/details/City_At_Worlds_End_
百萬年後的世界 (City at World’s End)
百萬年後的世界 [百万年後的世界] (City at World’s End)
Translator:
Publisher: 台北市 : 光復書局, 1970.
Series: 少年科學名著選集 ; 2
一顆威力無比的炸彈,它沒有炸碎高樓大廈,却打破了時間的限制,將米德市炸飛到一百萬年後的未來世界──是一個地球濒臨死亡的時代,勇敢的少年彼得,經過千辛萬苦,終於使地球再度復活。 -- Lucifer’s Hell
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因みにこのシリーズは以下の通りである。
恐らく、講談社の少年少女世界科学冒険全集(195607-195802), 少年少女世界科学名作全集(196105-196203), 世界の科学名作(196506-196511)を底本にしていると思われる。
少年科學名著
1. 海底兩萬浬 (20,000 Leagues under the Sea / by Jules Verne)
2. 百萬年後的世界 (City at World’s End / by Edmond Hamilton)
3. 宇宙大戰爭 (The War of the Worlds / by H.G. Wells)
4. 隱形的敵人 (Sinister Barrier / Eric Frank Russell)
5. 人造島的長征 (L’Île à hélice / by Jules Verne)
光復科學名著
1. 土星號的奇遇;納爾遜‧彭德 (by Nelson Bond)
2. 重遊消逝的過去 (by Robert A. Heinlein)
3. 地球的危機 (地球SOS by 瀨川昌男)
4. 火星少年 (by Robert A. Heinlein)
5. 機器人國 (by Isaac Asimov)
『土星號的奇遇』の書影はこちらから。