Ouçam! As Estrelas! (Série Espacial #4) - Listen! The Stars!

John Brunner

Editora La Selva, S. A., (SP)

1964

136 páginas

4h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780600200086

Português Brasileiro

Listen! The Stars! (1962) [aka] "The Stardroppers" -- A novel by John Brunner -- 'When the stars are calling, answer at your own peril ! '-' The Stardroppers is about an undercover United Nations agent investigating a new fad, "stardropping", whereby physics-violating equipment is used to listen to sounds believed to be alien or paranormal signals. . .

What was this thing called a stardropper whose use was the rage all around the world? Ostensibly a simple device made from an amplifier, a magnet, a vacuum, a power source and an earpiece. Add it up and you got nonsense - in the form of strange sounds, unintelligible to the human race. But was it "nonsense" that drove people mad, creating an addiction similar to dope? Was it "nonsense" that caused people to disappear off the face of the earth without a trace? Stardropper - a menace to an insane world, or a warning from the stars?

A Stardropper got its name from the belief that the user was eavesdropping on the stars. But that was only a guess ... nobody really knew what the instrument did. The instrument itself made no sense scientifically. A conventional earpiece, an amplifier, a power source -- all attached to a small vacuum box, an alnico magnet, and a calibrated "tuner". What you got from all this was some very extraordinary noises and the conviction that you were listening to beings from space and could almost understand what you were hearing. What brought Special Agent Dan Cross into the stardropper problem was the carefully censored news that users of the instrument had begun to disappear. They popped out of existence suddenly -- and the world's leaders began to suspect that somehow the fad had lit the fuse on a abomb that would either destroy the world or change it forever.
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[About the Author]: John Kilian Houston Brunner (1934–1995) was a prolific British science fiction author. John Brunner used several pen names: K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt (with E. C. Tubb and Dennis Hughes), John Loxmith, Trevor Staines and Keith Woodcott...