Brain Wave

Poul Anderson

Language: English

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Publisher: The Archer Press

Published: Jan 2, 1953

Magazine: Space Science Fiction [UK], Volume 2 No. 2

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''A masterpiece.'' --Larry Niven author of the Ringworld series and Fleet of Worldsseries

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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 life-forms. This is a transcendent look at the possible effects of enhanced intelligence on our planet.