Book description
Kirk Hammond is frozen in space and then enters the Earth 10,000 years
in the future. He encounters three species of humankind: humans who make
up most of the galaxy, the Vramen who never die because they live on the
restricted planet whose sun is the Star of Life. Humanity wants
desperately to enjoy eternal life too, but the Vramen will not allow it.
Because their children, and their children's children.
Edmond
Hamilton (1904-1977)
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Edmond Hamilton was raised there and in
nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. He was something of a child prodigy,
graduating from high school and undertaking his college education at
Westminster College at the young age of 14; he dropped out aged 17. A
popular science fiction writer in the mid-twentieth century, Hamilton's
career began with the publication of his short story 'The Monster God of
Mamurth' in the August 1926 issue of Weird Tales
. After the war, he wrote for DC Comics, producing stories for Batman,
Superman and The Legion of Superheroes. Ultimately, though, he was
associated with an extravagant, romantic, high-adventure style of SF,
perhaps best represented by his 1947 novel The Star Kings
. He was married to fellow SF writer Leigh Brackett from the end of 1946
until his death three decades later.
