Description: This limited edition "facsimile" reprint volume is a complete reproduction of the original first edition (published by Gnome Press in 1953) and includes a full-color dust jacket, protective slipcase, and biographical information about the author. Hidden throughout a future America of 1972 are a group of incredibly gifted children -- all roughly the same age, all preternaturally intelligent, and all hiding their abilities from a world they know will not understand them. They are Wilmar Shiras' Children of the Atom, the results of an unintended experiment in genetic mutation. Over the decades that followed, this eloquent portrait of gifted children confronting a hostile world proved itself to be an enduring classic. (It has also been credited, though never officially confirmed, with providing the inspiration for Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's world-famous comic book creation, The Uncanny X-Men.)

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