Only this uncrowned king could stop the ultimate weapon "Poetic, moody, polished, genuinely sensitive " says sf writer and critic James Gunn about the work of the grandmaster of pulp magazine space opera, Edmond Hamilton, who penned this haunting, lost classic of a man who found the stars too big a fit. When Neil Banning tries to visit his hometown, he discovers he needs a spaceship to get there. "It can't be true...