Series
Star Kings
Edmond Hamilton · 2 novels · 3 novellas · 3 novelettes · 1 collection · 1949–2014
The Star Kings sends John Gordon, a 20th-century man, two hundred thousand years into the future into the body of a rival star-prince, thrusting him into interstellar court intrigue and warfare between rival galactic empires. Edmond Hamilton's space-opera series continues Gordon's adventures across several sequels, mixing swashbuckling adventure with epic-scale science fiction. It began in 1949 and was followed by later entries into the 1960s and beyond.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Star Kings at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1940s1
- 1950s2
- 1960s5
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s1
Shape
2 novels · 3 novellas · 3 novelettes · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionbody swapspacefar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 9 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Star Kingsdarkest · most intense
- Return to the Starsbrightest · calmest