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Brain Wave

"For millions of years, the part of the galaxy containing our solar system has been moving through a vast force field, whose effect has been to inhibit 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 less intelligent humans and animal lifeforms. ... a transcendent look at the possible effects of enhanced human intelligence."

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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, whose effect has been to inhibit 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 less intelligent humans and animal lifeforms. ... a transcendent look at the possible effects of enhanced human intelligence.""@en
  • "What if we were all designed to be smarter than we actually are? That is the premise of master science fiction novelist Poul Anderson's 1954 debut work, Brain Wave. Unbeknown to its inhabitants, the solar system has for millions of years been caught in a force field that has had the effect of supressing intelligence. When in the course of normal galactic movement the solar system breaks free of the force field that has held it in its sway for so long, gone are the inhibiting effects and a remarkable change begins to sweep across the earth.In fact, the entire world is turned upside-down and Anderson's novel is devoted to detailing the sometimes surprising, sometimes chilling aftereffects of this watershed event. In one of the novel's opening scenes, Archie Brock, a mentally disabled man, finds himself suddenly awash in new kinds of thought as he ponders the night sky. In another scene, a young boy on a summer break works out the basic fundamental foundations of calculus before breakfast. Human life is dramatically transformed, as people with IQs of 400 find themselves living within social structures and institutions designed for people of considerably lower intelligence. There are others who refuse to accept what has happened and instead band together in a rebellion against the new order.Brain Wave is a fascinating "what if" novel and an exploration into the ways in which human society is organized and the assumptions that are made about how we value life. It is also a novel about equality and what happens when the hierarchical structures that we know and arrange our lives by finally disappear."
  • "Earth has been in an energy-damping field since the Cretaceous period, which has suppressed the intelligence of all life, including human beings. But now Earth suddenly moves out of the field, and within weeks all animal life becomes about five times as intelligent as before."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Science fiction, American"@en

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  • "גל-מוח"
  • "Brainwave"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Povara cunoasterii"
  • "Povara cunoasterii : ziua în care a început schimbarea"
  • "Moždani talas"
  • "Brain Wave"
  • "Brain Wave"@en
  • "Hjernechok fra universet"@da
  • "브레인 웨이브 = Brain wave"
  • "Brain wave"@en
  • "Brain wave"
  • "Brain wave : Introd. by Brian W. Aldiss"
  • "Gal-moaḥ"
  • "Vlaag van verstand"
  • "גל־מוח"
  • "Barrière mentale"
  • "Barrière mentale (Brain wave)"
  • "Pŭrein weibŭ = Brain wave"

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