City at World's End

Engaging space opera about a small midwest town somehow blown off into the future by an atomic bomb, ending up in a cold inhospitable dying earth, where the future looks grim. When humans from the stars turn up insisting they must be relocated to a better world, the people stubbornly resist, insisting on staying on earth. Dodgy science at times, a somewhat patronizing take on females, but it is lively, and Hamilton makes some effort to breathe life into some of the usual stock characters, and provides enough surprises and excitement to keep our interest. I read this early 50s book for the 1950s SF challenge, and will certainly look out for more of Hamilton's work.