Brain Wave (Audiobook)

from bnielsen

USA, New York, ca 1955 Indeholder kapitlerne "Det begynder ...", "Besynderligere og besynderligere", "Dyrenes oprør", "Rædselen", "Vi er alene, Joe", "Det nye menneske", "Den talende gorilla", "Forbundsfæller", "Den følsomme", "Rumskibet", "At dræbe sine venner", "På rejse i universet", "Livet be...

from stypulkoski

A quick, fun read with a fairly original premise (at least, one that hasn't been done to death). My chief complaint is that I wanted to know more; I feel as though we hardly get to know the characters, and that there are some potentially very interesting pieces of information that we are not priv...

from bruceandceals

A cosmic event causes the co-inhabitants of planet earth to leap suddenly forward in intelligence. Everyone is suddenly stratspherically smarter, even the animals. How would society cope if everyone were suddenly a genius, and the dumb beasts of burden no longer dumb. Would society as you know it...

from tursach_anam

There was so much potential here that never quite came to be. For instance, the animal intelligence could have been played out more. Also, transitions were almost non-existent. You would follow one character, then go onto another, then come back to the first at a later time with no explanation of...

from jseger9000

I'd first heard of Brain Wave via a reference in Stephen King's The Tommyknockers. Once I heard the synopsis for this book, I just had to read it. What if overnight, every living being on the Earth got smarter? The book opens with a rabbit reasoning its way out of a trap. Animals figure out that...