“When the Gods Came” by John Adams (aka, John S. Glasby). London: John Spencer & Co./Badger Books SF-31 (1960). Cover Art by M. D’Antona
“They Had a Strange History That Stretched Back a Billion Years in Time.”
From the back cover:
Men had fought wars throughout the whole of history, but never such a war as this which had destroyed the cities of Earth and turned vast areas into the Badlands, the stretches of intense radioactivity where nothing could grow and no one could live. It had also produced the Deviates, the mutants who had warped and abnormal bodies and strange talents.
But there were others who had far stranger talents, mental powers which far exceeded even those of the mutants, and whose bodies did not bear the sign of the Deviate. Their origin could not be traced to an atomic war, and even they themselves had no idea of whence they had come.
Forced to take part in the abortive war between the Western and Eastern Federations, Clifford McQuater and Ann Inglis eventually escape and discover the others who have powers similar to themselves. Their task was an almost impossible one, that of probing back through the histories of mankind, back five thousand years to discover the origin of their particular race; and the answer lay not on Earth, but somewhere in the stars.
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Badger Books were published between 1959 and 1967 in a number of genres, predominantly war, westerns, romance, supernatural and science fiction. In common with other “pulp” or mass-market publishers of the time, Badger Books focused on quantity rather than quality. A new title in each of the major genres appeared each month, generally written to tight deadlines by low-paid authors. One of the most remarkable facts about Badger Books is that much of its output was produced by just two authors (using a range of house names and other pseudonyms). John Glasby (over 300 novels and short stories) and Robert Lionel Fanthorpe (over 200 novels and stories). [Wikipedia]
“When the Gods Came” by John Adams (aka, John S. Glasby). London: John Spencer & Co./Badger Books SF-31 (1960). Cover Art by M. D’Antona
“They Had a Strange History That Stretched Back a Billion Years in Time.”
From the back cover:
Men had fought wars throughout the whole of history, but never such a war as this which had destroyed the cities of Earth and turned vast areas into the Badlands, the stretches of intense radioactivity where nothing could grow and no one could live. It had also produced the Deviates, the mutants who had warped and abnormal bodies and strange talents.
But there were others who had far stranger talents, mental powers which far exceeded even those of the mutants, and whose bodies did not bear the sign of the Deviate. Their origin could not be traced to an atomic war, and even they themselves had no idea of whence they had come.
Forced to take part in the abortive war between the Western and Eastern Federations, Clifford McQuater and Ann Inglis eventually escape and discover the others who have powers similar to themselves. Their task was an almost impossible one, that of probing back through the histories of mankind, back five thousand years to discover the origin of their particular race; and the answer lay not on Earth, but somewhere in the stars.
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Badger Books were published between 1959 and 1967 in a number of genres, predominantly war, westerns, romance, supernatural and science fiction. In common with other “pulp” or mass-market publishers of the time, Badger Books focused on quantity rather than quality. A new title in each of the major genres appeared each month, generally written to tight deadlines by low-paid authors. One of the most remarkable facts about Badger Books is that much of its output was produced by just two authors (using a range of house names and other pseudonyms). John Glasby (over 300 novels and short stories) and Robert Lionel Fanthorpe (over 200 novels and stories). [Wikipedia]