Bleedback by Winston K. Marks
"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.)
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| Author | Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney), 1915-1979 |
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| Illustrator | Emshwiller, Ed, 1925-1990 |
| 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 www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 83.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Police -- Fiction |
| Subject | Inventions -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 59323 |
| Release Date | Apr 21, 2019 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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