
Of the myriads of atomic power plants furnishing energy to run Civilization's galaxy-wide array of planets, all except a minute fraction of one percent were perfect servants; their vortices were small, tame, self-limiting, and self-adjusting. But at very long intervals some unpredictable one of these vortices would flare nova-like into a huge, wild, self-sustaining monster, destroying everything in its neighborhood and settling down into a crater of its own making. These "loose" atomic vortices never went out.
Only one man in all of Civilization could cope with this menace--Neal Cloud, Doctor of Nucleonics, who became known as the Vortex Blaster. This book is his narrative--the record of one man and his conflict with what appears to be a natural force gone mad. When Cloud discovers what is really behind the vortices--but that is the story.
The Vortex Blaster is just what the thousands of Smith fans expect of their favorite author--an exciting tale of other worlds with their strange environments and stranger inhabitants. In short, this is space opera at its gripingly entertaining best.
Lensmen appear in the story, since the "Lensman" universe forms its background, but this is not, strictly speaking, part of the Lensman series. It's an independent science novel, written to entertain.
Details
- Publication Date
- Nov 7, 2023
- Language
- English
- Category
- Fiction
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.
Specifications
- Pages
- 198
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- Executive (7 x 10 in / 178 x 254 mm)