Children of the Dust Summary
Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

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Children of the Dust Summary

Most readers will be drawn to Children of the Dust because of its vivid and imaginative picture of a new world being built on the ashes of our own.

The new society and new people, homo superior, portrayed in the second and third parts of the book are a surprise.

First, horror and doom fall over the world when nuclear bombs explode, and it appears there is no hope for humanity. The book...

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