02583cam a22003973u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000320011324500180014526400510016330000470021433600260026133700260028733800360031349000630034950000310041250801030044352011700054653400820171665300200179865300180181865300390183665300370187570000290191270000460194183000630198785600730205085600430212399900190216677823UtSlPG20260610134813.0mcr n260607r20261927utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aWandrei, Donald,d1908-198714aThe red brain 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Weird Tales, October 1927 (Vol. 10, No. 4.).  aRelease date is 2026-01-31  aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aThe red brain by Donald Wandrei is a science fiction short story written in the early 20th century. It envisions the far future as cosmic dust smothers the universe, leaving only the star Antares and its inhabitants—sexless, sentient Brains—while one aberrant Red Brain becomes the focus of a final, catastrophic bid to defy extinction.

In the tale, the stars fade until Antares alone remains, sealed beneath a crystal dome where immense Brains communicate by thought and devote themselves to science and survival. After ages of futile efforts to repel the dust—lightning storms in space, colossal magnets, explosive maelstroms, vacuum machines on distant stars, even engineered Super-Brains—the Great Brain convenes a last council in the Hall of the Mist. Silence reigns until the Red Brain declares it has found an infallible solution, exalting itself in a rapturous chant. With the assembly’s minds held open in hope, it unleashes lethal will-impulses that instantaneously dissolve the other Brains into lifeless pools, extinguishing the final hope of the universe as madness triumphs over a dying cosmos. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cIndianapolis: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1927  aScience fiction  aShort stories  aExtraterrestrial beings -- Fiction  aLife on other planets -- Fiction1 aRankin, Hugh,d1878-19561 aSenf, C. C.q(Curtis Charles),d1873-1949 0aProduced from Weird Tales, October 1927 (Vol. 10, No. 4.).4 uhttps://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV10N04192710/page/434/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77823  c118543d118543