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[The Two Thousand Centuries]
The Era of the Star KingsтАФ130,000-202,115.
THE STAR HUNTERS
By
Edmond Hamilton
ISBN 978-1-60089-047-5
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Copyright 1958, renewed Estate of Edmond Hamilton
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Certain death faced Mason if he ventured into the untracked Outer Marches of the galaxy; yet if
he didn't go the galaxy itself would die!

[original magazine blurb for Space Travel (formerly Imaginative Tales) Sept 1958]


AUTHOR'S CHRONOLOGY OF THE STAR KINGDOMS
THE TWO THOUSAND CENTURIES

The Era of Interplanetary Exploration and ColonizationтАФ1971-2011.

The Era of Interplanetary FrontiersтАФ2011-2247.

The Era of Interplanetary SecessionтАФ2247-2621.

The Era of Interstellar ExplorationтАФ2300-2621.

The Era of Interstellar ColonizationтАФ2621-62,339.

The Era of the Federation and United WorldsтАФ62,339-129,999.

The Era of the Star KingsтАФ130,000-202,115.

The history of two hundred thousand years showed how the entire structure of galactic civilization was
based upon the epochal discovery of sub-spectrum rays.

The era of space-travel had really dawned in 1945 and тАШ46, with the first release of atomic energy and
the discovery that radar could function efficiently in space. By the end of the 20th Century,
atomic-powered rockets guided by radar had reached the Moon, Mars and Venus.

Interplanetary exploration and exploitation had increased rapidly. But the vast distances to other stars
remained unconquerable until late in the 22nd Century, when three great inventions made interstellar
travel possible.