The Star Kings by Edmond Hamilton
The Star Kings, written by Edmond Hamilton, is an all-time great sci-fi classic. Young, restless, and dissatisfied with his ever monotonous insurance job, John Gordon discovered a way of traveling through time And when he arrived in the strange world of tomorrow, Gordon found himself in the middle of a titanic interplanetary war and he was the one man in the universe who held the key to final victory.
His adventures on other planets, his strange love affair with the beautiful Lianna, and his single-handed battle against the invading legions of the Dark Worlds all add up to an exciting adventure classic by one of the science fiction genre s most beloved authors, Edmond Hamilton.
Hamilton, Edmond: - Edmond Moore Hamilton (1904 - 1977) was an American writer of science fiction during the mid-twentieth century. 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-now a classic magazine of alternative fiction. Hamilton quickly became a central member of the remarkable group of Weird Tales writers assembled by editor Farnsworth Wright, that included H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Weird Tales would publish 79 works of fiction by Hamilton from 1926 to 1948, making him one of the magazine's most prolific contributors. Hamilton became a friend and associate of several Weird Tales veterans, including E. Hoffmann Price and Otis Adelbert Kline; most notably, he struck up a 20-year friendship with close contemporary Jack Williamson, as Williamson records in his 1984 autobiography Wonder's Child. In the late 1930s Weird Tales printed several striking fantasy tales by Hamilton, most notably He That Hath Wings (July 1938), one of his most popular and frequently-reprinted pieces. Hamilton is wrote one of the first hardcover compilations of what would eventually come to be known as the science fiction genre, The Horror on The Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror (1936). The book compiles the following stories: The Horror on the Asteroid, The Accursed Galaxy, The Man Who Saw Everything (The Man With the X-Ray Eyes), The Earth-Brain, The Monster-God of Mamurth and The Man Who Evolved. On July 18, 2009, Kinsman, Ohio, celebrated Edmond Hamilton Day, honoring 'The Dean of Science Fiction' and Kinsman resident.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781612871226 |
| ISBN 10 | 1612871224 |
| Title | The Star Kings |
| Author | Edmond Hamilton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Armchair Fiction & Music |
| Year published | 2012-09-22 |
| Number of pages | 202 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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