Brain Wave

Poul Anderson

Original title: Brainwave

Also published as: Brainwave

earliest edition we have, 1954 IBooks, Inc., 2003 paperback 176 pages

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What if we're all designed to be smarter than we actually are? That is, in short, the premise of master science fiction novelist Poul Anderson's 1954 debut work, Brainwave. Unbeknownst to its inhabitants, the solar system has, for millions of years, been caught in a force field that has had the effect of suppressing intelligence. When, in the course of normal galactic movement the solar system finally breaks free of...

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Editions we hold

Brain Wave audiobook · 2018 · Blackstone on Brilliance Audio · 9781721319220
Brain Wave edition · 2018 · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 212 pages · 9781504053679
Brain Wave paperback · 2018 · Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 214 pages · 9781504054553
Brain Wave audiobook · 2013 · Blackstone Audiobooks · 9781441778079
Brain Wave paperback · 2007 · I Books · 176 pages · 9780743497879
Brainwave paperback · 2003 · IBooks, Inc. · 176 pages · 9781596872202
Brainwave paperback · 2003 · I Books · 176 pages · 9780743474863
Brain Wave edition · 2002 · RosettaBooks
Brain Wave hardcover · 1998 · Lightyear Pr · 9780899683270
Brain Wave paperback · 1985 · Del Rey · 9780345325211
BRAIN WAVE paperback · 1978 · Del Rey · 9780345275561
Brain wave paperback · 1977 · New English Library · 192 pages

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