City at World's End

from baswood

Science fiction from 1951 that keeps the pages turning on a well told tale. Pulp fiction it might be, but when the writing is as smooth as this and the ideas are good then you could do worse than spend an afternoon with this book. The City at World's end is Middletown America and a mysterious ato...

from HellCold

What I hate most in reviews is spoilers, so, in order not to disclose any events, minor or major, I'll only say this novel is fantastic. You can't let it down once you've picked it up. It has adventure, humour, and some good, memorable moments, if you like such things... It's never too deep, neve...

from unclebob53703

I've read many post-apocalypse novels. This one is a pulp story to its core: old fashioned, even quaint in some ways, and once the personal narrative of the protagonist kicks in, entirely predictable. It's also action-packed, imaginative, and a great deal of fun. I may have over-payed for it ($24...

from tcgardner

What's Going On: A nuclear blast has thrown a small mid-west city into the far future. How the town's inhabitants deal with this extreme shock and how they overcome the shock is entertaining. Up: Adventure. This is standard '50s adventure pulp. Nothing derogatory here. I throughly enjoyed watchin...

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This is a post-apocalyptic time travel story, written in 1951 at the height of cold war fear of nuclear annihilation. Middletown, in some unspecified part of America, suffers a super-atomic bomb, but instead of being destroyed it is propelled forward in time billions of years to a time when a dea...