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jwharris28
Posted 2015-01-19 11:19 PM (#9329 - in reply to #9162)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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I switched from Foundation to City at World's End by Edmond Hamilton. I found an audio book version at YouTube, and got hooked. It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. I'm was doing data entry at GoodReads and City at World's End kept me company. Like many SF books from the 1950s, it featured an atomic bomb causing a fantastic event - this time sending Middletown, population 50,000, into the far future where the Earth has grown cold, and abandoned by our descendants. The writing wasn't horrible, but on the thin side, reminding me more of the 1930s than the 1950s, a story that would fit into Thrilling Wonder Stories.

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