An experimental atomic weapons test in small-town America goes catastrophically wrong, hurling the entire town of Middletown, buildings, streets and all, untold ages into Earth's future, to a time when the sun is dying and humanity's last city struggles on beneath a darkening sky. Cut off from everything and everyone they knew, the townspeople have to find a way to survive in a world that has nothing left to spare for latecomers. Edmond Hamilton's novel strands a slice of mid-century America at the literal end of the world.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- contained in Captain Future Series & Moreomnibus
- contained in King of Starsomnibus
- contained in The Edmond Hamilton Megapack: 16 Classic Science Fiction Talescollection
