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Title: Bleedback
Series Title: Produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1955
Credits:
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Summary: "Bleedback" by Winston K. Marks is a science fiction novel written during the mid-20th century. The story revolves around the chaos unleashed by a seemingly innocuous children's toy, the "Mystery i-Gun," which can make small metal objects disappear, only for them to gradually return, creating a dangerous phenomenon as these items re-emerge and inflict strange injuries on the public. The narrative explores themes of greed, the consequences of scientific experimentation, and societal panic. The plot follows a police lieutenant investigating the suspicious injury of Calvin Baxter, a mathematician who may have been harmed by his own invention, which his brother Leo hastily market as a toy. As the i-Gun hits the shelves, bizarre incidents occur across the nation, leaving countless people with painful, mysterious wounds. The lieutenant soon realizes that the accidents are linked to the i-Gun’s malfunction, culminating in a race against time to understand the accompanying dangers before more harm is done. Ultimately, as a deadly epidemic emerges, the lieutenant must rely on Baxter's research to find a solution, revealing both the terrifying and absurd outcomes of humanity's relationship with technology and its consequences. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 83.9 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney), 1915-1979
Illustrator: Emshwiller, Ed, 1925-1990
EBook No.: 59323
Published: Apr 21, 2019
Downloads: 116
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Police -- Fiction
Subject: Inventions -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Bleedback
Series Title: Produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1955
Credits:
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Summary: "Bleedback" by Winston K. Marks is a science fiction novel written during the mid-20th century. The story revolves around the chaos unleashed by a seemingly innocuous children's toy, the "Mystery i-Gun," which can make small metal objects disappear, only for them to gradually return, creating a dangerous phenomenon as these items re-emerge and inflict strange injuries on the public. The narrative explores themes of greed, the consequences of scientific experimentation, and societal panic. The plot follows a police lieutenant investigating the suspicious injury of Calvin Baxter, a mathematician who may have been harmed by his own invention, which his brother Leo hastily market as a toy. As the i-Gun hits the shelves, bizarre incidents occur across the nation, leaving countless people with painful, mysterious wounds. The lieutenant soon realizes that the accidents are linked to the i-Gun’s malfunction, culminating in a race against time to understand the accompanying dangers before more harm is done. Ultimately, as a deadly epidemic emerges, the lieutenant must rely on Baxter's research to find a solution, revealing both the terrifying and absurd outcomes of humanity's relationship with technology and its consequences. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 83.9 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney), 1915-1979
Illustrator: Emshwiller, Ed, 1925-1990
EBook No.: 59323
Published: Apr 21, 2019
Downloads: 116
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Police -- Fiction
Subject: Inventions -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.