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.Hamilton’s novel inspired Robert A. Heinlein’s survivalist novel “Farnham’s Freehold”.

An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events.

Being expelled from an air lock into deep space was the legal method of execution. But it was also the only way a man could qualify for—The Legion Of Lazarus

She was floating along the wreck-pack's edge. Helpless, doomed, into the graveyard of space floats the wrecked freighter Pallas.

He was afraid—not of the present or the future, but of the past. He was afraid of the thing tagged Reed Kieran, that stiff blind voiceless thing wheeling its slow orbit around the Moon, companion to dead worlds and silent space.

Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasted a thousand moons