The Torch (novel)

The Torch (novel)

Infobox Book
name = The Torch
title_orig =
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Jack Bechdolt
illustrator = Robert Tschirky
cover_artist = Robert Tschirky
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Prime Press
release_date = 1948
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 229 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 3047692
preceded_by =
followed_by =

"The Torch" is a science fiction novel by author Jack Bechdolt. It was first published in book form in 1948 by Prime Press in an edition of 3,000 copies. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine "Argosy" in January 1920.

Plot introduction

The novel is set in the year 3010, in the ruins of New York after an atomic disaster. Fortune is the captain of the army of the Towermen, those who live in the remaining skyscrapers and rule the city with an iron hand. He is taken captive by the people of the Island of the Statue. There, Fortune learns of a prophecy that states that the people will be free when the torch burns in the hands of the statue. Fortune is redeemed by his captors and leads them in a revolt against his former masters.

References

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=531 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Crawford, Jr. | first=Joseph H. |coauthors=James J. Donahue and Donald M. Grant| title="333", A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel | location=Providence, RI| publisher=The Grandon Company | pages=11 | date=1953|oclc= 3924496
*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=34 | date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1


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