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EMPIRE OF THE ATOM by A. E. van Vogt

EMPIRE OF THE ATOM

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Pub Date: Jan. 21st, 1956
Publisher: Shasta

The year is 12,000 A.D. with a culture which makes gods of Uranium, Plutonium, Radium and Ecks and has temple scientists to guard them. The birth of a mutant, Clane, to the ruling family is attended by a crisis and the child, allowed to live in seclusion develops into a supernormal. He is responsible for Martian and Venusian victories, salvages the empire after a barbarian invasion and is ready to protect the system against a possible attack from outer space. A fantasy of future frontiers.