Wolfbane (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: C. M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—invasion story
- Time of Work: 2350
- Setting: An out-of-orbit Earth somewhere beyond Pluto; Wheeling, West Virginia; and Princeton, New Jersey
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Future, New Jersey, Earth, Information science or systems, Aliens, space, West Virginia
- Locales: West Virginia, Earth, Princeton, NJ
The Plot
Wolfbane begins in the mid-twenty-third century. For 250 years, Earth’s population has been declining, from tens of billions to millions. The surviving millions live on reduced rations, lack creature comforts, and generally are cold. These difficult conditions followed Earth’s capture by an alien force, a vast cybernetic complex that rumbled out of space and replaced the Moon with its own planet. Planting a mysterious pyramidal object atop Mount Everest and dispatching nebulous “Eyes” to monitor its planetary prisoner for “ripe” human and mechanical...
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