After the collapse of civilization, Clane a brilliant mutant, manages to rediscover the lost science behind ancient machines that once ran everything and finds

When a mutant child is born to the Lord Leader's daughter-in-law, the balance of power in the post-holocaust world of the far-future is thrown into disarray.

Contact has been made between other planets and Gilbert Gosseyn finds himself trying to stop a galactic war between Earth and Venus.