The City at World’s End, by Edmond Hamilton – read by Mark Nelson
Edmond Hamilton’s The City at World’s End (first published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine in 1950, later as a novel in 1951) is a classic tale of atomic-age science fiction. The story begins when a sudden super-atomic blast devastates a small Midwestern town—yet instead of total destruction, the community is hurled millions of years into Earth’s distant future.
The bewildered townspeople awaken to find themselves stranded beneath a dying sun on a barren planet, their familiar world gone forever. As they struggle to survive, they must confront both the collapse of their old way of life and the possibilities of forging a new civilization amid desolation.
Blending Cold War anxieties with timeless questions of survival and adaptation, Hamilton crafts a gripping and imaginative vision of humanity at the edge of eternity.
