author - "Edmond Hamilton"

, was as it had always been."'You will want to see Paris--the Paris of our time, Henri?' asked Rastin. "'But it is different--terrible--' I said. "'We'll take you,' Thicourt said, 'but first your clothes--' "He got a long light coat that they had me put on, that covered my tunic and hose, and a hat of grotesque round shape that they put on my head. They led me then out of the building and into the street. "I gazed astoundedly along that street. It had a raised walk at

It went off right over Middletown, and it did something..." He faltered, and then said, "Nobody really knew what a super-atomic bomb would do. There were logical theories and assumptions about it, but nobody really knew anything except that the most violent concentrated force in history would be suddenly released. Well, it was released, over Middletown. And it was violent. So violent that..."He stopped, again, as though he could not quite muster up the courage to voice the