Citadel of the Star Lords

Pilot Ted Price makes one fatal mistake smuggling a political refugee across a border, and suddenly finds himself flung ten thousand years into Earth's future. The world he knew is gone, swallowed by an alien apocalypse. Humanity cowers in the shadow of the Star Lords, god-like conquerors who have remade the planet in their own image. Price is now a man out of time, a stranger in a land where the language has changed, where cities float among the clouds, and where the few remaining humans serve their alien masters as slaves or live in desperate hidden strongholds. But something in Price refuses to break. Hunted by the Star Lords and their human collaborators, he must find the resistance, and discover what humanity has become after ten millennia of alien rule. This is classic Edmond Hamilton: rocket-fast plotting, vivid planetary adventures, and one man standing against the darkness of the stars.