A Ameaça do Espaço (Série Espacial #3)

"The Psionic Menace" (New York: Ace Books, 1963 / Ace Double Novel F-199 [ASIN: B000HYRWUA]) as by *Keith Woodcott* [aka] John Brunner '-' [dos: first appeared September-October 1962 New Worlds as "Crack of Doom": pb/Ed Emshwiller] Paperback. Mind readers, Starfolk, and cosmoarchaeology!

MUST THE UNIVERSE DIE WITH THEM? -- The S.O.S. from beyond the galactic frontier! The Starfolk, arrogant masters of vast stretches of the cosmos beyond the Earth's sphere of influence, were determined to complete the extermination of the mind-reading mutants of Regnier's planet. But to the mutants themselves, the terror of the Starfolk was nothing compared to the greater dread that gripped their spirits - the obsession that the universe itself was doomed. This obsession ripped into their minds, overwhelmed them, and plunged them into horrifying hysteria. The message of room reached the ears of the Starfolk themselves, forcing the to a fateful decision. They would allow an Earthman, archeologist Philip Gascon, to visit Regnier in an attempt to unravel its secrets. What he found would either contain the key to the ultimate destiny of the universe - or the date of the doomsday. . .

[About the Author] John Brunner published under his own name and as "Keith Woodcott" a total of 27 novels with Ace Books, in addition to work with other publishers. For some readers, this spate of Hard-SF adventure stories still represents Brunner's most relaxed and fluent work as an author. Two from 1960 are typical of the storytelling enjoyment he was able to create by applying to "modest" goals the formidable craft he had developed. The Atlantic Abomination (1960 dos) is a genuinely terrifying story about a monstrous Alien, long buried beneath the Atlantic, who survives by mentally enslaving "inferior" species via Psi Power, rather like the thrint in Larry Niven's World of Ptavvs (1966). Sanctuary in the Sky (1960 dos) is a short and simple Sense-of-Wonder tale, set in the Far Future in a star cluster very distant from Earth. Various conflicting planetary cultures (all human) can meet in peace only on the mysterious Waystation, which is a synthetic world.
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Aventura / Drama / Ficção científica / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance / Suspense e Mistério / Terror