Mutant Mage Duology (in book & magazine variants), Transgalactic (2006) Omnibus by A. E. van Vogt
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Overview: In 1946 van Vogt began the series which would become known as The Mutant Mage, chronicling the life and times of a mutant born to the ruling family of a postapocalyptic empire with strong parallels with Imperial Rome, set in a devastated solar system.
Genre: Fiction > Science Fiction
01 Empire of the Atom (book, ed. Jim3692)
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.
The novel is a fix-up of the first five of van Vogt’s Gods stories which originally appeared in the magazine Astounding.
01 Empire of the Atom (Magazine Version)
A note on the edition: The text of the story here is that of the original magazine editions first published in Astounding Science Fiction, not the later versions which A. E. van Vogt reworked for various novelizations.
"A Son is Born" was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in May, 1946.
"Child of the Gods" was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in August, 1946.
"Hand of the Gods" was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in December, 1946.
"Home of the Gods" was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in April, 1947.
"The Barbarian" was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in December, 1947.
02 The Wizard of Linn (book, ed. Jim3692)
Bringing the human race back to the supremacy it had once enjoyed in the Solar System was task enough, even for a man as gifted as Clane, THE WIZARD OF LINN.
What with the ambitions of the brilliant barbarian, Czinczar, and the petty intrigues of the still powerful nobility, Clane kept quite busy.
But when to his tasks was added tire menace of die Riss, aliens from the stars who had devastated humanity once, and who were now on their way back, Clane knew his supreme challenge had come.
02 The Wizard of Linn (Magazine Version)
Earth was helpless after the atomic holocaust—ready prey for the worst threat of all, the invaders from an alien galaxy…WAS MAN DOOMED FOREVER TO SENDING MESSAGES BY SMOKE SIGNALS?The Earth, after the atomic holocaust, had reverted to a strange kind of barbarism where men could build space ships but could not communicate except by the most primitive means.So it was a sickening shock to Lord Clane Linn when he captured one of the alien invader’s space ships and discovered that their central headquarters in another galaxy was sending them messages and getting answers.There was no possibility of sneak attack against such an enemy. With this weapon alone the aliens could win the war—unless Earthmen discovered the secret and how to use it…before the next assault.ALONE AGAINST THE UNIVERSE. The alien Riss were coming to destroy Earth. Everyone knew it, but they did nothing. They were too busy fighting among themselves, planning bigger spectacles for the arena and engaging in petty intrigues to gain petty power.Only the mutant, Clane, knew how to fight the Riss. But he could count on no support from his fellow Earthmen. This was a task he must perform unaided…
A note on the edition: The text of the story here is that of the original magazine editions first published in Astounding Science Fiction, not the later versions which A. E. van Vogt reworked for various novelizations.
"The Wizard of Linn" was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in a three-part serial, April-June, 1950.
Transgalactic (2006) Omnibus (edited by Eric Flint & David Drake)
Empire of the Atom and The Wizard of Linn: Global war smashed civilization—or so the legends told-but not all of its machines. A caste of "scientists" arose who knew how to repair and operate the ancient machines—but not how they worked—and worshipped at the altars of the atomic gods who were said to make the machines run. Society was a strange mix of the modern and the medieval, with armies riding on horseback into huge spaceships, then flying to human colonies on other planets to wage war with swords and arrows.
Then came the mutant Clane, who would have been put to death for his deformities had he not been born into the ruling family. Though his body was twisted, his mind was brilliant, and he not only recovered the lost science behind the ancient machines, but found the truth behind the legends of civilization’s downfall. Alien invaders, not human war, had reduced humanity to barbarism as a prelude for a later return in force to colonize the Solar System. And that return would happen soon, unless Clane could find a way to stop it. . . . For the first time, the entire Clane saga, told in the two novels Empire of the Atom and The Wizard of Linn, is complete in one volume.
Mission to the Stars, Van Vogt’s sweeping novel of interstellar adventure, is also included, along with the two short novels in the "Ezwal" series, chronicling the struggle of one man to convince a feral but intelligent species to join with humanity in the battle against a mutual enemy-but first he must convince the lone Ezwal who is trapped with him in a deadly jungle to co-operate, or neither will survive.
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