Edmond Hamilton 28 min read

All its life Earth was deluged in an endless torrent of words, and now, even its death is to be cheapened by the cackling of the mass media, aboard a star-ship crammed with reporters and celebrities.

Edmond Hamilton's 1962 story is a beautiful, elegiac tale of the last days of a dying Earth. Moving, dignified, unforgettable. Read it for one of Hamilton's finest late stories, a poignant meditation on the death of our world and the vulgarity that would strip it of dignity.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

28 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Leo Summers