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Brain Wave

78.6% complete
1954
Unknown
Never (or unknown...)
Fiction in English
Intelligence levels - Fiction
Science Fiction
21 chapters
Book Cover
Has a genre In my library 
13760
No series
Copyright © 1954 by Poul Anderson
To
Karen,
of course
The trap had closed at sundown.
May contain spoilers
In there was shelter.
No comments on file
Extract not on file

 

Added: 06-Dec-2023
Last Updated: 06-Dec-2023

Publications

 01-Sep-1985
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
In my libraryOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Sep-1985
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$2.50
Pages*:
164
Catalog ID:
32521
Internal ID:
33396
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-345-32521-4
ISBN-13:
978-0-345-32521-1
Printing:
8
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Michael Herring  - Cover Artist
RUNAWAY IQ


The Change had come.

The world was suddenly. incredibly different.  Somehow, the Earth had escaped from a force field that had until then slowed down light and otherwise affected electromagnetic and electrochemical processes.  Almost overnight the intelligence of every living creature - man and beast - trebled.  And the world went mad.

Archie Brock. the near moron, found himself in sole charge of a farm of strangely uncooperative animals and had to enlist the aid of superintelligent chimpanzees who had escaped from a nearby circus.

Peter Corinth, a physicist who started out life bright, was suddenly translated to an order of intelligence that left his rather dumb wife far behind... and she was no longer too dumb to notice.

But the biggest problem of all was the ultimate one.  In a world without problems, where all the questions that have plagued mankind throughout history are solved, what is man to do with his time?
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Notes and Comments:
First Edition: June 1954
Eighth Printing: September 1985
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01-Sep-1985
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

 Poul Anderson
Birth: 25 Nov 1926 Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 31 Jul 2001 Orinda, California, USA

Notes:
From "About Poul Anderson" in the 1985 edition of Brain Wave:

What would happen if...

Those are magic words, and the writer who chooses to follow out their intention finds himself suddenly released, in a world unbounded by here and now and open to the farthest reaches of logic and imagination.  What would happen if philosophers were kings, if men could live forever, if the human race could suddenly surmount the limits of its present intelligence?

Such a train of thought has been the starting point for some of the most fascinating works of imaginative fiction, and it is to this class of informed speculation that BRAIN WAVE belongs.  Poul Anderson (the pronunciation lies midway between "pole" and "powl") is, like many of the best writers in science fiction, a graduate physicist.  (The physical sciences seem to be producing as many authors as medicine did a generation ago.)  As such, he brings to fiction that sense of the possible that the widening horizon of science often bestows.

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