The narrator is very good.

The characters are annoyingly stereotyped and a reflection of the time it was written I guess. This feels like a very "by the book" pulp sci-fi but this one is better than most.

Yes it's true the women are not realistically written at all but I don't think the author was sexist. In the end the protagonist did recognize the strength of the alien woman that he did not see in his contemporary ones.

There are a couple of very cool speculative elements of the story that is worth the flaws.

I was searching for this long time ago and finally I found it.

Thanks!

Excellent reader! Well written story.

I can’t say enough about the story; it’s classic science fiction, but not in the style of for bidden planet or Robbie the robot. Just great storytelling.

It’s sad to read some of the reviews here on the Internet archive where people are complaining about the story or that movie being sexist or whatever. If so, so what? People are different in the different areas of human life, and it’s simply an exercise in futility to complain that a certain narrative does not adhere to Orthodox feminism. If anything it just shows that so-called orthodox feminism is going to prove to be nothing but a very short blip in the history of human sociological realities – at least I hope so.

In the meantime, leave your pronouns outside the door and just listen, read, and watch the narratives, thoughts, and imaginings of those who came before us. Now lost forever except for the words and stories that they have told us, we will soon join them as ancient relics fading with the twilight.

I, for one, can hardly wait! In the meantime I will watch, listen, and read as much as I possibly can.

The reading done by Mark Nelson, as always, is expertly delivered and soothing to listen to.

As with most sci-fi of the era, there are elements that grate on modern sensibilities, but when context is remembered it is a good story.

The descriptive nature of the writing is evocative of a breathless landscape and a bleak hopelessness.

Strangely, now that we've spent time in a global event where people had to work together to get it figured out, it's abundantly clear that Edmond Hamilton nailed the "Don't dun herr touch muh' freedum!" and the refusal to adapt, even in the face of survival, responses to difficult situations.

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The mc succeeds at everything he tries.
Nothing has negative consequences.
Protagonist's motivations grind heavily against the reader. This is a sci-fi, where the protagonist... hates sci-fi - to the point of preferring suicide, rather than deal with anything sci-fi.

First, the narration is excellent. My issues are about the book's text.

Written in 1951, it's impressive how well it foreshadows some of the best sci-fi in the subsequent 70 years. Unfortunately, the author's misogyny is grating to my 2021 sensibility. All the women, including the alien women for a million years in the future, are frail creatures. They need men to lead them.

Otherwise, it's an interesting enough book.

I find it somewhat prescient that a major character is the scientist, Dr. Hubble. Edwin Hubble (no relation. Because he’s real) was the person who discovered the universe—I mean that he realized that those smudgy things out there were other galaxies .

I have an old astronomy book in which there is a picture of our galaxy labeled “The Universe”.

I first read this book when i was a kid and really into scifi and I loved it then. Now I liked it.

Great Reader. Book is VERY sexist and the characters idiots. Difficult to listen too because of that. The plot is so silly making the people seem even more dumb.

Mark Nelson is always spot on-arguably the best narrator on the LibriVox roster.

I really enjoyed this book...the narrator was really quite good.

Mark Nelson did an excellent job of reading "The City at World's End."
I was absolutely captivated by this story. I was able to easily imagine myself as a character in the story pulled along by forces beyond my control, fighting for the survival of my city and way of life.
I highly recommend listening!

I was engaged from the opening paragraph until the last sentence. No fat in this one, folks. A unique sci-fi ride that you will remember for a while.

A nuclear explosion sends a city forward in time, when the earth is dying due to the core having cooled off. The people manage to find an abandoned city where they can warm themselves while they try to find others who can help them. Unfortunately, those others just intend for them to be evacuated from their home planet.

Further complicating things is the fact that those futuristic people just view them as dumb savages, no smarter than pets. How can they overcome that prejudiced and save their home at the same time?

Excellent reading also, thanks!