num_pages: 159
description: In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writers such as A.E. van Vogt, whose novel Slan was one of the works of the era.Slan is the story of Jommy Cross, the orphan mutant outcast from a future society prejudiced against mutants, or slans. Throughout the forties and into the fifties, Slan was considered the single most important SF novel, the one great book that everyone had to read. Today it remains a monument to pulp SF adventure, filled with constant action and a cornucopia of ideas.
language: English
title: Slan
titlecomplete: Slan (Ballantine SF, 511K)
characters: Jommy Cross
genres: Fiction, Space Opera, Speculative Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy, Hugo Awards, Novels
ratings_count: 5210
series: Slan
awards: awardedAt: -568051200000
name: Analog Award
category: All-Time Best Book, awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Retro Hugo Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Ballantine Books