02932cam a22004213u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000330011324500240014626400510017030000470022133600260026833700260029433800360032049000160035649000650037250000310043750801030046852014790057153400720205065300200212265300290214265300250217165300230219665300360221970000280225583000160228383000650229985600840236485600430244899900190249178055UtSlPG20260610134817.0mcr n260607r20261955utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aMerwin, Sam, Jr.,d1910-199614aThe white rain came 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aLynn Fenlay1 aProduced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.).  aRelease date is 2026-02-27  aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aThe white rain came by Jr. Sam Merwin. It is a science fiction novelette written in the mid-20th century. Set on a colonized Mars, the story explores telepathy, frontier society, and a mysterious cosmic intelligence, centering on how settlers might harness an alien force to solve the planet’s desperate water crisis.

Lynne Fenlay, a gifted telepath from Earth, chafes at Mars’s rough customs while working at a telepathic research depot. After a colleague is killed and another left comatose during contact with an unknown mind, Lynne and her reckless partner Rolf Marcein trace the source to Callisto, where an Earth mission has been devastated by a sentient, mineral-like entity provoked by a buried power generator. Together they master telekinetic control long enough to shut the device down, saving survivors but at great cost. Back on Mars, Lynne detects a similar presence near Woomera Station and deduces these interlinked “super-brains” exist on many worlds, react to irritation with thunderous energy, and, given an atmosphere, can trigger storm phenomena. She designs a shielded telepathic relay to “nudge” the entity into producing localized weather, and the team successfully brings snowfall to the parched plain—proof that Mars can be watered. Celebrations and commendations follow, tempered by losses, lingering dangers, and a wry final mishap that postpones the couple’s long-delayed honeymoon. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1955  aScience fiction  aMars (Planet) -- Fiction  aTelepathy -- Fiction  aSpouses -- Fiction  aCallisto (Satellite) -- Fiction1 aHunter, Mel,d1927-2004 0aLynn Fenlay 0aProduced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.).4 uhttps://archive.org/details/FantasticUniverseV03n04195505ATLPM/page/n3/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78055  c118775d118775