# The Atom Clock

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{{Short description|1951 play by Cornel Lengyel}}
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| name          =  The Atom Clock
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| translator    = 
| image         = Atom clock.jpg
| caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
| author        = [Cornel Lengyel](/source/Cornel_Lengyel)
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = 
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        = 
| genre         = [Science fiction](/source/Science_fiction) [play](/source/Play_(theatre))
| publisher     = [Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.](/source/Fantasy_Publishing_Company%2C_Inc.)
| release_date  = [1951](/source/1951_in_literature)
| english_release_date =
| media_type    = Print ([Hardback](/source/Hardcover) and [Paperback](/source/Paperback))
| pages         = 66 pp
| oclc          = 2617068
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'''''The Atom Clock''''' is a  [science fiction](/source/science_fiction) play by [Cornel Lengyel](/source/Cornel_Lengyel). It was published in [1951](/source/1951_in_literature) by [Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.](/source/Fantasy_Publishing_Company%2C_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](/source/Advent_(publisher)) | pages=271 | year=1974|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}

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