Sinister Barrier (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Eric Frank Russell
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—invasion story
- Time of Work: 2015
- Setting: New York City; Washington, D.C.; and Idaho
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Future, Twenty-first century, West, U.S., Emotions, Washington, D.C., Thought or thinking, Aliens, space, Idaho
- Locales: New York, NY, Washington, D.C., Idaho
The Plot
In May of 2015, a series of strange deaths of American and foreign scientists, beginning with Professor Peder Bjornsen in Stockholm, attracts the attention of government agent Bill Graham and Lieutenant Art Wohl of the New York police. All the scientists were specialists in optics and related fields, all had connections with one another, and several had painted their arms with iodine and had ingested mescal and methylene blue. The trail of contacts leads eventually to Edward Beach, whose team at the National Camera Company in Silver City, Idaho, is developing a new...
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