The City at World’s End

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The City at World’s End – A Well-Written, Original Time Travel Story



In the 1950s, an atomic war was more than plausible, as the world’s great powers became increasingly more threatening toward each other. Under these circumstances, dropping a huge hydrogen bomb on an unsuspecting small town would not have been farfetched in a science-fiction novel, but what happens next in The City at World’s End was considered an original and quite outstanding spin, even by some of the most well-known science fiction authors of the time.

The city of Middletown, a small American city that hides an anti-atomic base is thrown ahead into the distant future by the force of the bomb, and its inhabitants now find themselves on an unrecognizable Earth that barely allows for basic survival.

From the shocked initial reactions of regular inhabitants, to the conclusions of scientists, the people of Middletown soon begin to realize what their dire situation has brought forth. If the challenge of trying to figure out the advanced, deserted technology of a nearby city wasn’t enough, they are soon faced with an even greater problem imposed by their distant descendants – who have long evacuated the Earth and are now living among the stars.

The City at World’s End is definitely not your regular sci-fi story. Author Edmond Hamilton manages to create a believable world and a fascinating future explored through a fast-paced plotline by a diverse set of likeable characters. While the story’s premise is quite understandable when considering that the early ’50s were the dawn of the atomic age, the social, philosophical, scientific and psychological implications associated with the sudden displacement of an entire 20th century city are quite interesting to follow.


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