A review by nwhyte
Children of the Atom by Wilmar H. Shiras

http://nhw.livejournal.com/1056925.html[return][return]On that list of the 100 most influential sf books that was going round a year or so ago, this was the only one whose author I simply had never heard of. It is set twenty years in the future (ie 1973), and revolves around the assembling of a group of children whose parents all died after a nuclear accident in 1959, and who all display exceptional intelligence. At the end of the book, the children decide that they must integrate into the mainstream of society.[return][return]It's obviously at least in part a parable of fandom / geekdom, but a rather effective one. Definitely an under-rated classic.