(urth) I Claudius

[Andy Robertson]

Russell Wodell writes: 

> Graves' Claudius novels seem an obvious inspiration for BOTNS.  
> 
> But I wonder if there isn't an intervening source in a Graves rip-off: A.E. van Vogt's fix-up Empire of the Sun (1957).
 

EMPIRE OF THE ATOM.   Gorgeous tripe from AEVV, but having read it recently 
I doubt there's a close link: the style is all wrong, and VV is really 
writing about the pains of being a superhuman/subhuman mutant.