Empire of the Atom

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Empire of the Atom

Dust-jacket of the first edition
Author A. E. van Vogt
Cover artist Malcolm Smith
Country United States
Language English
Series Gods
Genre(s) science fiction novel
Publisher Shasta Publishers
Publication date 1957
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 192 pp
ISBN NA
OCLC 290721
Followed by The Wizard of Linn

Empire of the Atom is a science fiction novel by A. E. van Vogt. It was first published in 1957 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 2,000 copies. The novel is a fix-up of the first five of van Vogt's Gods stories which originally appeared in the magazine Astounding. The remaining Gods stories are collected in The Wizard of Linn. Author and critic James Blish observed that the plot of the Gods stories resembled that of Robert Graves' Claudius novels[1].

Contents

[edit] Contents

  • "A Son Is Born"
  • "Child of the Gods"
  • "Hand of the Gods"
  • "Home of the Gods"
  • "The Barbarian"

[edit] Plot introduction

The novel concerns adventures of a mutant genius in a barbaric future where spaceships are used without being understood.

[edit] Publication history

  • 1957, USA, Shasta Publishers OCLC 290721, Pub date 1957, Hardback
  • 1957, USA, Ace Books D-242 OCLC 4049107, Pub date 1957, Paperback, abridged, Ace Double with Space Station No. 1 by Frank Belknap Long
  • 1959, Germany, Zimmermann, Pub date 1959, Hardback, as Das Erbe des Atoms
  • 1959, Germany, Terra 95, Pub date 1959, Hardback, as Das Erbe des Atoms
  • 1963, Italy, La Tribuna SF B. C., Pub date 1963, Hardback, as L'impero dell'atomo, with The Wizard of Linn
  • 1966, USA, Macfadden 60-267 OCLC 2302660, Pub date 1966, Paperback
  • 1968, France, Ed. Opta 'Classique SF' 11, Pub date 1968, Hardback, as L'empire de l'atome, with The Wizard of Linn

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Clute, John; Peter Nicholls (1995). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1269. ISBN 0-312-13486-X. 

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