Brain Wave

Name: Brain Wave
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Poul Anderson
ISBN: 9781441778109

Author: Poul Anderson

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 02/09/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

For millions of years, the part of the galaxy containing our solar system has been moving through a vast force field that has been inhibiting certain electromagnetic and electrochemical processes and, thus, certain neurotic functions. When Earth escapes the inhibiting field, synapse speed immediately increases, causing a rise in intelligence, which results in a transfigured humanity reaching for the stars, leaving behind our earth to the less intelligent humans and animal lifeforms. This is a transcendent look at the possible effects of enhanced intelligence on our planet.

About Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson (1926-2001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. After discovering science fiction fandom and earning a physics degree at the University of Minnesota, he found writing science fiction more satisfactory. Admired for his hard science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and "fantasy with rivets," he also excelled in humor. He was the guest of honor at the 1959 World Science Fiction Convention and at many similar events, including the 1998 Contact Japan 3 and the 1999 Strannik Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik, or "Wanderer," Awards. A founder of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he became a Grand Master, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

Great concept, troubling conclusions. I mean, isn't this what a lot of great SF is all about? A great idea to explore and get really excited about, coupled with a great story for the personal impact? We've got half of this. I almost squeed like a little girl with the idea that EVERYTHING on the plane......more

Goodreads review by Bill

I like returning to the “classics” of my youth, for I always discover not only something new about the work itself, but something about myself and how I have changed. Sometimes, though, rediscovery is a mitigated pleasure; sometimes I must face that fact that one of my old “classics” isn’t really a......more

Goodreads review by Scott

Imagine for a moment that humanity is a race of drooling idiot-children, operating at 20-25% of our brain capacity. (Was that a stretch for you? It wasn't for me, thinking of the US election, sundry pointless wars and the popularity of The Coolest on Kickstarter.) Now imagine that over the course of......more