Star Man’s Son, 2250 A.D. (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Andre Norton
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—post-holocaust
- Time of Work: The twenty-third century
- Setting: Cleveland, Ohio, and the surrounding countryside
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Teenagers, Future, Midwest, Ohio, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Mutations or mutants
- Locales: Cleveland, OH
The Plot
First published in hardcover for a juvenile audience, Star Man’s Son, 2250 A.D. was so popular that in 1954, it was retitled Daybreak, 2250 A.D. and reissued in paperback for adults. With this new set of readers, the novel had its second success.
Star Man’s Son, 2250 A.D. takes place in a United States devastated by the effects of nuclear war. Fors, the main character, is a teenager trying to make a place for himself in his primitive mountain community. His father was a Star Man, a respected gatherer of information from the...
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