Project Gutenberg 2019-04-21 Public domain in the USA. 148 Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney) 1915 1979 Marks, Winston Kinney Emshwiller, Ed 1925 1990 Emsh Emsh, Ed Alexander, Ed Emshwiller, Edmund A. Willer EMSH Bleedback Produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1955 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "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 ease score: 83.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Police -- Fiction Inventions -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 71734 2025-06-23T14:18:20.835394 text/html 68487 2019-04-20T19:02:04 text/html 263083 2025-06-23T14:18:22.974365 application/epub+zip 261931 2025-06-23T14:18:21.276353 application/epub+zip 88450 2025-06-23T14:18:21.017369 application/epub+zip 303055 2025-06-23T14:18:24.465388 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 295705 2025-06-23T14:18:22.725396 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 122429 2022-09-26T22:31:51.186595 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 64609 2025-06-23T14:18:20.690374 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 64827 2019-04-20T19:02:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20195 2025-06-23T14:18:24.613401 application/rdf+xml 28904 2025-06-23T14:18:21.113380 image/jpeg 4999 2025-06-23T14:18:21.065371 image/jpeg 459852 2019-04-20T19:02:04 application/octet-stream application/zip 25937 2019-04-20T19:02:04 application/octet-stream application/zip 463157 2025-06-23T14:18:20.852371 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia