Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony 1913-1966 creator text utu 2024 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners_Live_in_Vain Release date is 2024-06-21 Al Haines Originally published: Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1950 Science fiction Conspiracies -- Fiction Inventors -- Fiction Space travelers -- Fiction PS Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1950 https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Book_v01n06_1950 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73886 https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Book_v01n06_1950 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73886 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134717.0 73886