{{Short description|1951 play by Cornel Lengyel}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject Books --> | name = The Atom Clock | title_orig = | translator = | image = Atom clock.jpg | caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition | author = Cornel Lengyel | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Science fiction play | publisher = Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. | release_date = 1951 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback and Paperback) | pages = 66 pp | oclc = 2617068 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''The Atom Clock''''' is a science fiction play by Cornel Lengyel. It was published in 1951 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 1,000 copies of which 250 were hardcover. The play received the Maxwell Anderson Award in 1950.

==Plot introduction== The play concerns a worker who rebels against military control of atomic energy.

==References== *{{cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | author2=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=270 | year=1998}} *{{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=271 | year=1974|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}

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