Transgalactic

Global war smashed civilization — or so the legends told — butnot 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 novelsEmpire of the Atom and The Wizard of Linn, complete in one volume.

Also included is Van Vogt's sweeping novel of interstellar adventure, Mission

to the Stars, along with the two short novels in the Ezwal

series.