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_aHerbert, Frank, _d1920-1986 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe nothing |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, January 1956 (Vol. 4, No. 6). | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-12-22 | ||
| 508 | _aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _aThe nothing by Frank Herbert is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. It imagines a future society built on psychic talents that are fading away, and examines genetic planning, predestination, and the risk of choosing a freer, less certain tomorrow. Jean Carlysle, a teen pyrokinetic, quarrels with her father and goes to a tavern where she meets Claude, a “Nothing” without powers and a fugitive from a government preserve. Both are detained and taken to the Sonoma Preserve, where Claude’s father, Mensor Williams—an elite prescient-telepath—explains that psychic abilities are regressing across generations; in secret, the preserves are reviving old mechanical skills and arranging marriages to sustain crucial talents. Citing a strong genetic match and claiming to have foreseen it, Williams swiftly marries Jean and Claude, giving Jean a telepathy-blocking implant. After Jean briefly returns home, she learns Williams only foresaw their meeting, not their future together. Claude resents the manipulation, but Jean embraces the commitment, and the pair decide to face a “cloudy” future no prescient can see, asserting their own choice amid a world losing its gifts. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1955 |
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| 653 | _aScience fiction | ||
| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aMate selection -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aPsychic ability -- Fiction | ||
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_aEmshwiller, Ed, _d1925-1990 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, January 1956 (Vol. 4, No. 6). | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Universe_v04n06_1956-01 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77528 |
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