City at World's End: The midwestern town of Middletown is the "first
strike" of a new super bomb. However, instead of destroying the town,
the attack rips a hole in the space-time continuum, sending the town and
it's inhabitants to a distant Earth, cold and foreboding. The story of
their struggle, survival, and ultimate success in rekindling the planet
and dealing with the people and aliens of the future is the stuff of
great science fiction. As you listen, see if you agree with the many who
think this story was the origin of the Star Wars characters Chewbacca
and Leia. The Stars, My Brothers: Edmond Moore Hamilton was a popular
science-fiction author during the "Golden Age" of American science
fiction. "The Stars, My Brothers" is considered one of his best, and
certainly most imaginative, stories. A spaceman is killed in space and
frozen. He is left orbiting the space station where he was killed in the
hope that a method will be found to bring him back to life. That day
finally comes a hundred years later, when he awakens to a very different
world and comes to realize he has become both a symbol and a pawn in a
human/alien conflict.
