Slan Author:A. E. VanVogt Centuries ago, human beings fought the slan race for control of Earth. Most of the slans were destroyed, and a world-wide police state was created to protect humanity from the survivers, because slans were mutants - stronger than human beings and telepathic -- and so were capable of taking over the world if given the chance. Since they could be ... more »easily identified by their minid-reading organs, slans were often murdered in the streets with government approval.
This is the story of Kathleen Layton, the one exception to the kill all slans rule, a pawn to a ruthless dictator whose hold on power depends on keeping her alive, and John Thomas Cross, another young slan growing completely isolated from his own kind, heir to a secret invention so wonderful and terrible that it could mean new life for his people, or death to the entire planet.« less