Power and wealth vanish when existential disaster strikes humanity
Billionaire Lumley-Gotham and cynical Secretary Granville control a futuristic world where workers are crushed and dissenters like pilot Billy Kingdon are imprisoned. When professor Holcomb loses control of an apocalyptic new element called X-radiumite, the threat of total annihilation turns social hierarchies upside down. The elites panic and scramble onto Billy's high-altitude airship, abandoning their absolute power just to escape death. A single technological cataclysm strips away the illusions of empire in an instant.
Part 1
