EMPIRE OF THE ATOM

by Van Vogt

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1957 . Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by van Vogt. A mutant boy rises to power in a barbaric post-nuclear war culture where radioactive elements are worshiped as gods and scientist-priests monopolize atomic power Brians . A space opera of courtly intrigue which is modeled on Robert Graves's historical novels about the emperor Claudius Pringle . A novelization of a series of five

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