Empire of the Atom
Cover artist: Edward Valigursky
Publisher: Ace
Pub year: 1957
Cover price: 35¢
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Cover artist: Edward Valigursky
Publisher: Ace
Pub year: 1957
Cover price: 35¢
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They ruled the stars — yet knew not how!
Part of Ace Double: Space Station #1
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Barbarians of Super-Power
They were strange people, those inhabitants of Earth 12,000 years after the Galactic War. They possessed the power of the atom, they had real space-ships, but they did not understand how they worked and they did not know the elementary principles of science. But the strangest among them was the young man, Clane, mutant son of the ruling family.
Clane should have been destroyed — for that was the rule for such freaks. But when he miraculously survived, it was to be the start of a chain reaction of super-scientific miracles that would either remold the solar system on a higher scale or reduce it once again to utter barbarism.
A.E. Van Vogt has produced a thrilling novel of the far future, geared to marvels and keyed to high adventure.