Vault of the Ages by Anderson, Poul - 1979

E-193: Gregg Press. Very Good. 1979. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Gregg Press, Boston, MA. 1979. 210 pgs. First, thus. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf wear present. No ownership marks present. The text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. FFive centuries into the future, America is no longer what it used to be. Many generations after the old civilization was consumed in a nuclear firestorm, the few survivors have returned to a simple, agrarian lifestyle and eschew the malevolent “magic” of science that brought about “the Doom. ” When the Dalesmen of the Alleghenies are threatened by the hostile Lann descending from the North, their chieftain’s son, Carl, is dispatched to the blasted ruins of an ancient city to trade for metal and weapons. However, something extraordinary awaits him in this feared and forbidden place: a time capsule from the twentieth century containing the essential scientific and technological information of a lost society. Carl knows his discovery can help rescue the Dalesmen’s homes and farms. But the law is unbending in this age of superstition—and if the chieftain’s son returns this forbidden knowledge to his people, the tribal Doctors will surely put him to death. One of Poul Anderson’s earliest science fiction masterworks, Vault of the Ages is at once a riveting tale of adventure and a deeply human story of duty and destiny offering a stunning vision of an all-too-possible future. E-193; The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series; 8.4 X 6.0 X 1.5 inches; 210 pages .