Publisher's Synopsis
He was afraid - not of the present or the future, but of the past. He was afraid of the thing tagged Reed Kieran, that stiff blind voiceless thing wheeling its slow orbit around the Moon, companion to dead worlds and silent space.... Hamilton was a thoughtful SF writer, and you can surely see that here: this is the tale of a man dead in space for centuries - and revived by folks who approach an alien world a lot the way out nuttier environmentalists approach the defense of trees. There are creatures on this alien world, see, that look like people - and act like chimpanzees. But chimps are animals, aren't they? Aren't they...? Edmond Moore Hamilton was an American author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-twentieth century. Edmond is often credited as the first author of the first hardcover compilation of what would eventually come to be known as the Science Fiction genre. His career as a science fiction writer began with the publication of the short story "The Monster God of Mamurth" and quickly became a central member of the remarkable group of Weird Tales writers assembled by editor Farnsworth Wright, that included H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Hamilton would publish 79 works of fiction in Weird Tales making him one of the most prolific of the magazine's contributors.
