City At World S End

The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war - but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map - to somewhere else! First there is the new thin coldness of the air, the blazing corona and dullness of the sun, the visibility of the stars in high daylight. Then comes the inhabitant's terrifying discovery that Middletown is a twentieth-century oasis of paved streets and houses in a desolate brown world without trees, without water, apparently without life, in the unimaginably far-distant future.

The sky split open and Middletown became the "City at Worlds End"

In one split second they were hurled across time into a world one million years away.A surprise nuclear war may cause the End of the World, but not the way anyone could have imagined. A classic science fiction tale originally published in Galaxy Magazine.The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war - but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map - to somewhere else! First there is the new thin coldness of the air, the blazing corona and dullness of the sun, the visibility of the stars in high daylight. Then comes the inhabitant's terrifying discovery that Middletown is a twentieth-century oasis of paved streets and houses in a desolate brown world without trees, without water, apparently without life, in the unimaginably far-distant future.

The peaceful village of Middletown began it's days as it always did. The children went to school, the postman delivered the mail with typical timing and loyalty. Kenniston went to work his daily ritual without fail. In a millisecond life changed for the people of Middletown and the World. Cities burned one by one in the Nuclear Flames of World War Three. A small band of survivors vow to rebuild civilization once again

In this Classical Science Fiction Novel; a suprise Nuclear War causes a End of the World as we know it. This is one book in a series from Galaxy Science Fiction Publishing.

A classic science fiction tale originally published in Galaxy Magazine.A surprise nuclear war may cause the End of the World, but not the way anyone could have imagined.In one split second they were hurled across time into a world a million years away.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 to evil to be borne alone.The novel describes the shocking experiences of a group of ordinary people, catapulted by a mysterious explosion into the terrifying strange world of a million years hence. It is not a prophecy - but a warning.