01805cam a22003853u 4500 73886 UtSlPG 20260610134717.0 m cr n 260607r20241950utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony, 1913-1966 Scanners live in vain Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2024 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier The Instrumentality of Mankind Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners_Live_in_Vain Release date is 2024-06-21 Al Haines "Scanners live in vain" by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger is a science fiction short story written in 1945. In a future where space travel causes unbearable pain and death, only Scanners—volunteers who have severed their sensory nerves—can crew starships. When a scientist discovers a way to make Scanners obsolete, their guild faces extinction and votes for murder. Scanner Martel must choose between loyalty to his brotherhood and preventing an assassination that could restore his lost humanity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1950 Science fiction Conspiracies -- Fiction Inventors -- Fiction Space travelers -- Fiction The Instrumentality of Mankind https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Book_v01n06_1950 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73886 114611 114611