BRAINWAVE POUL ANDERSON PDF
Brain Wave [Poul Anderson, Tom Weiner] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. For millions of years, the part of the galaxy containing our solar. So Brain Wave’s brevity can in all likelihood be attributed to editorial requirements of the time that shackled SF writers’ imaginations to guidelines dictated by the. (Richard Powers’ cover for the edition) /5 (Vaguely Good) I have long been a fan of Poul Anderson’s functionalist yet engaging SF.
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I realized part way though why I was reading this book so slowly.
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Also, brainwace much of the plot is quite predictable. Your email address will not be published. Or something like that…. Back to the book: He published his first short story in Astounding Science Fiction magazine inand went on to produce more than books, most of them novels.
I think the character-development will generally please character-driven readers like me. The premise sounded interesting: By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Reviewer Groff Conklin praised the novel as an “original idea.
Later on he becomes “executive of the world. For the entire span of life on Earth our galaxy, in its endless revolution through the universe, was passing throug At first, the changes were subtle. The human race as a whole, indeed, finds itself wondering what to do with pol.
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Pretty heady stuff for a supposed conservative in the s. Overall the concept of the story is brainqave – what if everyone were suddenly super smart?
He received numerous a Pseudonym A. This element was a little off for me, tough not entirely. Brock, a mentally handicapped andetson worker who is raised to genius level intelligence and Corinth a research physicist who was a genius before the event an unfathomably smart afterwards.
And the only women with a career was described in terms of the emotional support she gave to an unobtainable man.
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What kind of chaos would that wreck on the world? So things are a too stereotypical in the book. I have a MUCH higher opinion of the book: Posit a galactic field that reduced our ability to think. And that last bit pouul most important when following one of the scientists’ wives, Sheila who was quite content with being a devoted housewife until she gets super-smart and andeson can’t handle the onslaught of existential crises that develop when you start understanding the stuff that before you really didn’t bother thinking about.
All the animals jumped in intelligence as well as all the people. Suddenly everyone on the planet doubles their IQ. Still, what we have here is fairly dynamite: He was, in fact, intrigued. As my blog is my first ever and since I am computerically challengedI opted for the WordPress default theme, with which I am fairly pleased. For the entire span of life on Earth our galaxy, in its endless revolution through the universe, was passing through a cloud, or force field, that inhibited the full potential of our brain activity and now we were passing out of it.
It drives me crazy. The premise might seem a bit silly — Earth suddenly passes through a region of space that causes every living thing’s intelligence to increase by an order of magnitude — but it’s your typical “high concept” early sci-fi story.
I found Anderson’s writing to be almost poetically beautiful in spots “How heavily the sea rolled! Even indoors, he could hear it grinding against the shore, tumbling rocks, grinding away the world like the teeth of time.
Born to Danish parents in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Anderson graduated in physics from the University of Minnesota in Referring back to that aforementioned blurb again the “panoramic story” part refers to a multiple viewpoints structure which allows the author to create a detailed post-IQ boost world.
Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. Return to Book Page. Brain Wave does really well examining how intelligence impacts our respect for authority, societal organization and sense of self worth.
From what I hear, this is a common problem with early sci-fi—the women characters are, to put it nicely, cardboard. However, as Earth moves from the field the average IQ of both humans and animals increases dramatically with a vast variety of results.
What we do get though is enough of a concept to have it continually be counted as one of Anderson’s best novels and one of the better SF novels of the s.
Brain Wave
I assured him that when I found my copy, I would lend it to him—and then shipp it off to my sister in Pennsylvania for a read. There are multiple issues with the novel. As a result, almost all of the life on Earth with neurons died off, causing the Cretaceous—Paleogene extinction pouk. I guess I am in the minority here: