Edmond Moore Hamilton was an American writer of science fiction during the mid-twentieth century. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he was raised there and in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. Something of a child prodigy, he graduated from high school and entered Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania at the age of 14, but washed out at 17. Edmond Hamilton's career as a science fiction writer began with the publication of The Monster God of Mamurth, a short story, in the August 1926 issue of Weird Tales. In the late 1930s, Weird Tales printed several striking fantasy tales by Hamilton, most notably He That Hath Wings, one of his most popular and frequently-reprinted pieces. City At World's End is a serious examination of a possible future for the human race. It is the middle of the 20th century, in America's Middle West, where, in Middletown, home to 50,000, Kenniston, a scientist, is walking to his job at an industrial laboratory. Almost nobody who lives in Middletown knows that the lab is an important component of America's defence establishment! But somebody knows, and that somebody detonates one of those new super-atomic missiles that everybody has been talking about right over Middletown! But instead of vaporizing the town, the explosion shatters the very fabric of space and time and transports Middletown and all its inhabitants millions of years into the future, to when the sun is weak and red and the land is dry, desolate and cold… You can listen online to free English audiobook “The City at World's End” by Edmond Hamilton on our website.
