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navigation, search Brain Wave first edition cover Author Poul
Anderson Cover artist Richard Powers Country  United States
Language English Subject Intelligence Genre science fiction
Publisher Ballantine Publication date Media type Print
(Paperback, Hardcover) Pages 164pp OCLC 2886722 LC Class 54-8910
Brain Wave is a science fiction novel by Poul Anderson first
published in serial form in Space Science Fiction in 1953, and
then as a novel in 1954. Anderson had said that he could
consider it one of his top five books[1] This is one of many
science fiction works written at this time on the theme of
heightened intelligence.  Plot summary[edit]  At the end of the
Cretaceous period the Earth moved into an energy dampening field
in space. As long as Earth was in this field all conductors
became more insulating. As a result almost all of the life on
Earth with neurons died off, causing the Cretaceous–Paleogene
extinction event. The ones that survived passed