Tag: The Star Kings

I had an urge the other day to read a favorite science fiction novel from my childhood, “The Star Kings,” by Edmond Hamilton. But when I pored over my bookshelves, the tattered old paperback was nowhere to be found. I looked through my older son’s room, empty since he started studying at the University of Arizona in Tucson, to no avail. I then went to Amazon to see if I could find a copy, and they did have one: a more recent edition than mine. But the cost of around $10 seemed steep, especially since the original was only 75₵. I put off placing the order in order to sleep on it, torn between my desire to return to the exciting future world of Zarth Arn, and the order of magnitude increase in cost since I first found the novel buried in a pile of pulp fiction periodicals years ago…