Edmond Hamilton's "The Stars, My Brothers" is a gripping science fiction short tale. This moving story delves into themes of identity, alienation, and the perseverance of the human spirit in the face of change. Morgan, an astronaut on a mission to explore the depths of space, is introduced in the story. When Morgan's ship meets a cosmic event known as a "time warp," he is hurled thousands of years into the future. He awakens on a significantly altered Earth, with a new scenery and humans gaining telepathic skills. Morgan sees the telepathic species who now inhabit Earth as he deals with the shock of his predicament and his personal estrangement in this strange world. Despite their huge disparities in abilities and lifestyles, he discovers common ground and a shared humanity with these advanced beings. Edmond Hamilton's tale covers the issue of adaptation and the enduring essence of what it means to be human in a remarkable way. "The Stars, My Brothers" asks philosophical questions concerning the nature of humanity and the relationships that transcend time and circumstance.
Edmond Moore Hamilton (October 21, 1904 – February 1, 1977) was a mid-twentieth-century American science fiction writer. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and raised in adjacent New Castle, Pennsylvania. He graduated from high school and enrolled in Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, at the age of 14, but dropped out when he was 17. Edmond Hamilton's career as a science fiction writer began with the publication of his short tale "The Monster God of Mamurth" in the August 1926 edition of Weird Tales, which is today considered a classic journal of alternative fiction. Hamilton rapidly established himself as a key member of Farnsworth Wright's amazing circle of Weird Tales writers, which included H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. From 1926 to 1948, Weird Tales published 79 works of fiction by Hamilton, making him one of the magazine's most prolific contributors. Hamilton became friends and associates with several Weird Tales veterans, including E. Hoffmann Price and Otis Adelbert Kline; most famously, he had a 20-year connection with near contemporary Jack Williamson, as Williamson recounts in his 1984 autobiography Wonder's Child.
