About this title: The line of guns and stolid men remained unmoved. Kenniston considered trying to crash it, and gave that up at once. The lieutenant was watching him suspiciously, so suspiciously that an uncomfortable thought occurred to Kenniston. He spoke the language and he had worked closely with the star-folk, and the good people of Middletown might just possibly take him for a traitor or a spy...
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Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Richard Powers. reading copy, wraps worn. 160p., reading creases and edgewear, the sign of a good book! ! In one split second they were hurled across time into a world a million years away. read more
Edition: First Crest Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Crest Books
Date Published: 1957
Description: Poor. Cover, spine wear; intact. Pages good. Reading copy. In one split second they were hurled across time into a world a million miles away. Chilling and prophetic. 160 pages. read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey
Date Published: 1983-06-12
ISBN-13:9780345309877ISBN:0345309871
Description: Good. Text is clean and bright. Binding is tight with a slight lean. Light edge and corner wear. Price mark on first page. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Crest
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. Pages unmarked; shows very little shelf wear; cover is misprinted slightly more than 1/8" and doesn't wrap at spine like it should; binding breaks at pp42-3, but is intact otherwise. read more
Description: Reading Copy or Better (Will pro. Mass Market Paperback: Fawcett Crest Giant: s184: 1st 09/1957: Reading Copy or Better (Will provide a more complete description upon request): Cover Artist: None Credited. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Publications
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. No names, no marks, no stickers. This is a very nice paperback copy. Light edge and corner wear, lite tan/stain. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey
Date Published: 1983-06-12
ISBN-13:9780345309877ISBN:0345309871
Description: Very Good. This book is in excellent condition with tight solid pages and binding, pages are clean and bright. No names, no marks, no stickers. Very light edge wear. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Crest, Greenwich, CT
Date Published: 1974
Description: Good-Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 160pp. M2026. September 1957/January 1974. Covs lightly rubbed. 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 ... read more
"Fascinating read - both the concept (which I'll leave to the reader to discover) and the amusing thoughts on what the future will be like as perceived by someone in the 1950's. Some interesting messages in the book about sentimentality, fear and happiness. I certainly enjoyed it."
"The writing is not very good and the sexism was even more ridiculous than other old sci-fi (I'm not usually offended by sexism in sci-fi). Lame premise and unsatisfying ending."
"Up until recently, I have to confess that I had not heard of Edmond Hamilton (even though I most likely read some of his work on The Legion of Super-Heroes in my childhood). Having come across some people raving about this book at a Forum, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy and I am certainly glad that I did.
It is a very enjoyable book, which while clearly marked by its time (the 50s) still holds up and keeps surprising the reader. I do not want to reveal too much, since half the fun is seeing the way the story develops, but let me say that the basis for the story is a catastrophe, in the form of a nuclear explosion, affects the 1950s American town of Middletown in ways one could hardly have foreseen, and that we as readers get to follow protagonist Kenniston on a journey stranger than he (or I) could have anticipated.
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