The Wailing Asteroid, by Murray Leinster
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THE PUBLIC ABRUPTLY ceased to be interested in news of the signals. Rather, it suddenly wanted to stop thinking about them. The public was scared. Throughout all human history, the most horrifying of all ideas has been the idea of something which was as intelligent as a man, but wasn't human. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk
The Wailing Asteroid, by Murray Leinster- Published on: 2015-10-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .37" w x 8.50" l, .85 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. The Wailing Asteroid By Joe T. One of my favorite science fiction stories, I read the original publication until it fell apart on me years ago. Some folks have called it bland and predictable but for me it was a nicely paced and thoroughly enjoyable read. Some of the scene setting gave me the sense of actually being there. Anyway, one of my favorites and it was great to find it again! Joe Turner
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. "And the Stars, Kenneth, Are for Man-- Not for the Communists!" By Paul Camp Oh, the Dean Machine, the Dean Machine,You put it right in a submarineAnd it flies so high that it can't be seen--The wonderful, wonderful Dean machine!-- Damon KnightIn the late 1950s and early 1960s, John W. Campbell, Jr. wrote a series of editorials in _Astounding/Analog_ lambasting the U.S. Air Force for the wretched performance in the space race against the Russians. Campbell's solution was to put our money and energy into researching reactionless space drives. He was convinced that an invention by Norman L. Dean that seemed to bypass Newton's third law of motion could lead to a space ship that would put the stars in the hands of America.Articles in _Analog_ reflected Campbell's latest enthusiasm. There was Campbell's own "The Space-Drive Problem" (June, 1960), with John Schoenherr's cover of a submarine orbiting Mars. G. Harry Stine's "Time for Tom Swift" (Jan., 1961) expressed the belief that a scientific genius (a Tom Swift) was out there somewhere who would show us how to make spaceships with reactionless drives. The culmination was a heavily mathematical article by William O. Davis called "The Fourth Law of Motion" (May, 1962) which argued that we could bend (though not quite break) Newton's third law of motion. To some readers of _Analog_, it must have seemed as if they were living in a real life edisonade. Any day now, an inventor hero was going to lead us to the stars. Any day now.I don't know how much Murray Leinster's edisonade _The Wailing Asteroid_ (1960) was directly influenced by the goings-on in the pages of _Analog_. But it certainly seems to be a reflection of the times. There are satellites, missles, the DEW line, bomb shelters, the Cold War, and military bureaucrats. But American individualism wins out in the end.Oh, yes. The story. Well, it seems that radio telscope stations around the world begin to pick up a regular musical code every seventy-nine minutes. It is coming from M-387, an obscure asteroid. But our hero , an engineer named Joe Burke, has heard the signals in his head from time to time since he was eleven years old.Burke believes that the code is a set of instructions for building a super spaceship. But there is a catch. Building spacecraft is strictly illegal. How to get away with a project this big? Burke's plan is to build a ship that looks like a jumbo-sized plastic bomb shelter. Leinster (who was an inventor himself) has great fun showing how this is done. I know of no other novel in all of science fiction that boasts of such a spacecraft. Nor do I know of a scene exactly like the one in which a bomb shelter is fleeing from a group of nuclear missles.Now, edisonades do not come from a literary tradition of deep philosophy, elegant poetry, or classical novels. They come from a tradition of dime novels, penny dreadfuls, pulp thrillers, and Edward Stratemeyer syndicated series. Their appeal is not so much literary as it is the living of a power fantasy. Wouldn't it be fun to whip together a wonderful spaceship? Wouldn't it be fun to whiz off to M-387? And _then_...But alas for romance. The _Analog_ space-drive articles petered out after the middle of 1962. The Dean drive came to naught. We never did discover a Tom Swift or a Dick Seaton. America won the space race, but it did so with conventional liquid fuel rockets rather than an FTL drive or repelatron fields. Still, Leinster's novel maintains a certain charm and quirkiness. It is one of his most entertaining and original works._Addendum_: _The Wailing Asteroid_ was made into a British movie called _The Terrornauts_ (1967). I have not seen it, but all reviews that I have read indicate that the film was rather dreadful. Stick to the original book.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Classic ... absolute classic! By Greg B. Gallagher One would think that a "dated" sci-fi book like this wouldn't hold much depth or would withstand the test of time, but this one is awesome. I'd say, "They should make a movie out of this!" but 'they' would, of course, ruin it.From the beginning pages, you'll say to yourself, "I get this.. I get the plot, I get the characters, I like where this is going!" and you'll feel like the 50s will put the "cool" back into sci-fi the same way the Forbidden Planet did, or This Island Earth.The characters are likable, the plot is logical and has no holes, and it is just an enjoyable book. In fact, this is one of the first sci-fi books my father "made" me read when I was a kid, and this is the one which absolutely hooked me. A total classic!
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