Brain Wave (Audible Audio Edition) Poul Anderson Tom Weiner Inc Blackstone Audio Books
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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.
Brain Wave (Audible Audio Edition) Poul Anderson Tom Weiner Inc Blackstone Audio Books
Some thirty years ago I took this book out of the library and returned it unread. But the cover showing a chimp with a rifle on an elephant (paperback cover) stuck in my head. Wind forward to last year I got this book for my kindle and could kick myself for not reading it earlier.The story: earth moves out of a magnetic field in space that has retarded human intelligence. Now we are the smartest creatures in the universe; even the animals have become smarter. People who were mentally handicapped are now geniuses; but they are still mental dwarfs compared to the super elite. What happens in such a society. Some people clearly cannot deal with this mental awakening.
The best part of this story though is the time it was set in; right after World War II and the dropping of the atomic bomb. Some of the characters have fresh mental scars from the war and you can feel the fear; this is not dusty history for them; they have lived through it all and are raw from it. The story just feels so fresh because of it.
At times there are a few stumbles as how can you make things interesting when everyone is super-smart; but the author pulls it off. A most satisfying read; and a lynchpin in the understanding of atomic age science fiction.
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Brain Wave (Audible Audio Edition) Poul Anderson Tom Weiner Inc Blackstone Audio Books Reviews
This is an excellent idea, and a wonderful exploration of it. The only "defect" is that it was not published in 2010 (I guess that is the publishing), but in 1953, so it is rather dated. But I would certainly not penalize a book for being written long ago!
i first read this when I was in grade school in the late 1950's. Loved it then and still do. I'd not read it in decades, but still enjoyed this recent reading. I love the story premise, but for the first time I asked a question never considered in the story, and that is this how would the children of the new man develop? Given the very discussions used in the story, it seems their children would develop the same mental capacities of the pre-change humans. This means the "new" man would only apply to those already alive when the change occurred.
This is a fabulous novel. The premise is fascinating. Earth moves into a portion of the galaxy which is absent a form of energy field which our world had previously been surrounded by for perhaps a billion years. The effect of the absence of this "inhibitor field" is that all animal life on Earth experiences a huge increase in nervous system efficiency, mainly resulting in a quantum leap in intelligence. The rest would be telling, but this is a very well-written and fascinating story even if some of the political backdrop is now anachronistic. What would happen if human intelligence quadrupled or more, such that human morons became geniuses, and average humans became something we can perhaps not even imagine? That is the premise of this throught-provoking story.
Anderson at his best is hard to beat, and this is among his best works. Every lover of Science Fiction should read and own this novel, as should anyone who loves a good yarn that stretches the reader's imagination.
This was a good novel and kept my interest. I was surprised at how long ago it was written. I think people today might be a little too jaded for the ideas of the novel.
A book based on an intriguing idea we have been moving through a region of space where a field damped neural speed. When we move out of that field, human IQ sky-rockets. Animals also become much smarter. Horses refuse to work, pigs plot clever escapes, chimps learn simple speech.
Written in 1954, it long predates Vernor Vinge's ideas of the different regions of space the Slow Zone, the Beyond, the Transcend. It is slightly later than Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End, which has some of the same themes, although I think Poul Anderson pulls off the transition much more convincingly.
In general the transition from normality to beyond-genius is intriguing, but it is hard for Anderson to convince us of the consequences. For example, I tend to doubt that many people would immediately refuse to perform mundane jobs, thus crashing the economy.
The beginning pages of the book are definitely the best, where the world wakes up to find itself curiously smarter as the transformation process begins.
I have always admired the science fiction of Poul Anderson more than I actually enjoyed it; even Tau Zero (SF Collector's Edition) (Gollancz Sf Collector's Edition), often considered his best, left me awe-struck at the concept but emotionally cold. (One exception is Call Me Joe, a really powerful novelette, but I didn't love most of Anderson's novels that I have read.) This novel, on the other hand, I really enjoyed. It is a fine example of the "sociological" subgenre of SF that became popular in the 1950s, in which a single scientific change is imagined and the book then explores the impact on that change on society. Here, the change is an overnight, massive increase in the IQ of all humans and animals. Anderson first show the effects this would have on society, with numerous incidents involving different people in various parts of the world, then begins to focus in on a few of those individuals. At that stage, the book becomes far more "human" and emotionally engaging. Well worth reading for any fans of classic science fiction.
I first read this half a century ago and it has affected all of my life since then. There are so many little technology predictions, including audio streaming to personal listening devices. It is a great read. It helped me deal with that teenage discovery that I think differently from everyone around me. "Maybe it's not me, maybe the rest of the herd has gone insane."
Some thirty years ago I took this book out of the library and returned it unread. But the cover showing a chimp with a rifle on an elephant (paperback cover) stuck in my head. Wind forward to last year I got this book for my kindle and could kick myself for not reading it earlier.
The story earth moves out of a magnetic field in space that has retarded human intelligence. Now we are the smartest creatures in the universe; even the animals have become smarter. People who were mentally handicapped are now geniuses; but they are still mental dwarfs compared to the super elite. What happens in such a society. Some people clearly cannot deal with this mental awakening.
The best part of this story though is the time it was set in; right after World War II and the dropping of the atomic bomb. Some of the characters have fresh mental scars from the war and you can feel the fear; this is not dusty history for them; they have lived through it all and are raw from it. The story just feels so fresh because of it.
At times there are a few stumbles as how can you make things interesting when everyone is super-smart; but the author pulls it off. A most satisfying read; and a lynchpin in the understanding of atomic age science fiction.
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